First look: Sabo Skirt family file debut Gold Coast apartment tower on Broadbeach's best street
Broadbeach's dress circle Surf Parade is set for another high-end apartment tower, with a twist.
Plans have been filed by GPCR Pty Ltd, an entity linked to Panayiota Koukouvas, the co-founder and managing director of popular fashion boutique Sabo Skirt.
While the family's first foray into the development market, they already know a lot about Broadbeach. They have an outlet over in Pacific Fair.
Catering for the owner-occupier, the new tower at 158 Surf Parade, dubbed Sola, will have just 20 three-bedroom apartments across 22 levels.
The design plans by Prospect Apartment Architecture was to blend the sea and the shore. The tower part of the development was inspired by "sea", the ocean, water, and waves, while the podium acts as "the shore", sand, rocks and vegetation.
"The proposal seeks to sympathetically respond to the existing urban context through it’s high quality architectural expression," Prospect's submission to the Gold Coast City Council suggested.
"The building is orientated towards the East to maximise views of the parkland and ocean, while limiting privacy and overlooking to the neighbouring buildings.
"The slender built form features a considered material palette, layered with screening and expressed slab edges."
Each apartment in the project will span 200 sqm internally and have three bedrooms, a multi-purpose room, and a kitchen with a butler's pantry. The master suite will have it's own ensuite and walk in wardrobe.
The impressive podium level amenity starts with a full wellness zone, complete with mineral spa and ice pools, a gym, a steam room, and a sauna.
Located separately at the other end of the floor is a covered indoor/outdoor swimming pool and communal deck area.
Always a sign that the tower will be delivered to the highest standard, the Kouzoukas family will be retaining a number of apartments for extended family to enjoy.
GV Property Group's Antonio Mercuri and Luke Reaby put the site together. There were six individual owners in the late 1970s building on the 640 sqm site.
Mercuri said Surf Parade and the surrounding streets are developers favourite part of Broadbeach.
"It offers a local beachside community vibe with the Bowls Club, Soccer club, Parklands and playgrounds along with multiple cafes all in the little pocket," Mercuri says.
"This Northern pocket provides a unique offering with open spaces, parklands and world class expansive views. The obvious and one of the best points of the views is that it is 'uninterrupted out to the ocean' plus in the evening you get to enjoy the glitz and glamour of the highrise lights around and up and down the coast."
Surf Parade has been a hotbed for local developers in the last six months.
A few doors down at 152 Surf Parade, Polites Property Group filed plans for a 21-unit tower just before Christmas. Mosaic are currently selling Marella at 146 Surf Parade, and Gallery Group have seen success at their owner-occupier tower Chalk. They're soon to launch Chalk's sister tower, North, to the market. Polycell are also set to start sales of their 170-apartment project Rochester in the coming months.
Bassar Constructions recently finished their Surf Parade project Infinity, which sold out before construction completion.
