HIGHWAY BAR HITS THE ROOF WITH CARAVAN
A NEW rooftop bar with a retro theme and its own 1950s-era Airstream caravan will be built overlooking one of the Gold Coast’s busiest roads.
The bar will occupy the second level of a Nobby Beach building, above a Grill’d restaurant, at the corner of Gold Coast Highway and Lavarack Road.
The Motel G rooftop bar will be an “interim” measure before the site is redeveloped to create a dining and shopping precinct.
Plans filed with the Gold Coast City Council on Wednesday show it will feature a bar where food will also be served, raised and platform seating as well as a picnic area, table seating under a pergola, and toilets.
The Airstream caravan will be placed on the roof by a crane to act as an acoustic buffer from the traffic noise, the plans say.
Large palm trees will also be lifted onto the rooftop as part of the decor. The ground floor will be unchanged.
The building where the bar will be built was destroyed by fire in July 2016. The ground level was rebuilt.
The Bulletin this month reported the site would be one of two redeveloped in Nobby Beach under a striking plan by the area’s two biggest commercial landowners: fruiterer George Manettas and developer Daniel Veitch.
The pair unveiled complementary developments that would reflect the arched architecture of former Gold Coast landmarks such as the Pink Poodle Motel and the still-standing Southport Bathing Pavilion and Sata Nita building in Southport.