Millennials are moving in
Permanent residents now part of proposal
DESIGNS for a proposed Millennials-only hotel on the Gold Coast have been changed to allow permanent residents.
Originally pitched to Gold Coast City councillors as having multiple floors of “rooming accommodation” for a hostel, the already approved 19-storey Tryp Hotel tower in Meron Street, Southport, will instead have 135 apartment rooms.
The apartments will be housed from levels four to 12 and will be a mixture of one and three-bedroom units.
A hotel is planned for levels 13 to 17, with floorplans indicating there will be 21 rooms per floor.
The building’s rooftop will contain a bar and rooftop cinema looking out over Southport and Surfers Paradise.
Public consultation on the project has opened.
Submissions close on November 8.
Construction was expected to begin before Christmas but has been pushed back until the changes are approved by the Gold Coast City Council.
It will be the first stage of what is expected to be one of the largest developments ever conceived for the city – Imperial Square.
The centrepiece of the completed project will be the Southern Hemisphere’s tallest tower, at 108 storeys.
The Bulletin first revealed the project in June 2014.
Developer Robert Badalotti, whose company Azzura is building the tower, last year said he decided to focus on the highly lucrative youth market based on research showing that Millennials would make up 50 per cent of all worldwide hotel bookings by 2020.
Millennials, also commonly known as Generation Y, are people born from the early 1980s through until the mid-1990s.
Experienced hotel operator Wyndam has been appointed to run the complex once it is completed.