source : the age
A new Trump Tower on the Gold Coast would be Australia’s tallest building, the organisation run by US president Donald Trump’s family has announced.
The development – built in partnership with a local developer – would rise 91 storeys and about 335 metres above Surfers Paradise. It would have a 285-room hotel, 272 residences and retail and dining space.
A “private” beach club is also promised, in what would appear to follow a model floated by Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate.
“We are thrilled to bring this vision to the vibrant Gold Coast community,” Eric Trump, son of the president, said in a statement.
Australian developer Altus Property Group announced it would partner with the Trump organisation to build the tower.
A location for the development – officially called Trump International Hotel & Tower Gold Coast – was not provided, but an artist impression suggested it would be at the 3 Trickett Street site this masthead previously reported was being eyed for a Trump-branded project.
The address had been home to the Iluka Resort, which was knocked down in 2013. A 285-metre tower with almost 700 units was approved for the site in 2015, but never built.
“If it was to go ahead, it would obviously be a great outcome for Surfers Paradise and the Gold Coast,” Tate’s office previously said.
Q1, also on the Gold Coast, is presently the tallest building in Australia at 322.5 metres.
Trump’s grandmother and father founded the company in 1927 as E. Trump & Son. Trump joined it in 1968 and took over in 1971, renaming it The Trump Organisation soon after.
When elected as US president in 2016, he handed the company’s leadership to his children.
Alongside its real estate ventures, The Trump Organisation has been involved in cryptocurrency and produced goods including vodka, fragrances, Bibles, jewellery, chocolate and mobile phones.
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