Thirty-five mill plus if you got the cheese…
Last year, it was revealed, here, that a passionate newcomer to surfing had bought the hottest piece of real estate in surfing and was gonna fill it with a landmark twelve-storey tower catering to the fabulously wealthy.
“I love everything about it and can’t believe I’ve been lucky enough to buy it,” said Brisbane-based VAL Paul Gedoun.
Now, and just a few hundred metres north, the old 151-room Greenmount Beach Resort, a faded jewel that was as glamorous as it gets when it was built in 1980, is gonna be offloaded and replaced, likely, with four or five twelve-storey towers.
Queensland developer Sunland Group bought the old site in 2016 for twenty-eight mill.
The following year they lodged plans for a $370 million build featuring two curvilinear towers filled with 247 apartments. It didn’t happen and in a recent review of undeveloped assets the company figured better to sell than linger.
The Greenmount Beach Resort holds many pleasant memories for your old pal DR including, although not limited to, being attacked with a glass bottle by a noted surfboard shaper enraged by my involvement in a bodyboarding magazine; meeting a pretty brunette with smoky eyes who would later become my wife; and presenting Kelly Slater with a twin-fin surfboard made by Mark Richards and painted in candy stripes and which would feature in a number of surf movies – a surfboard I’m pretty sure, helped convince MR to put the old board back into production, and to great commercial success.
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What is the point of this article other than to sprout that you met your wife in Coolangatta ( you and thousands of others), and to big note yourself about handing over something that you didn’t pay for? “Likely” you reckon? Mate when it comes to predicting possible built environment matters you don’t know shit from clay. Stick to your poncy surf related observations and spare us the hysterical crystal ball shit.
Dude, you might have missed the part about this being a surf gossip site. If you don’t like,
you might be in the wrong place.
though, there are plenty of.
I could be wrong but it looks like the architect was counting his coins , when the idea to build , these stacks of silver coins came to mind ..
Where in the Money ?
https://youtu.be/O9HaeAwdwOM
Not a bad looker?
If wide-arsed, hairy German
Is your special bent
I just realised
I could reply to myself
Ain’t that darn quirky!
And another thing!
I’m guessing the shaper had
A famous brother
Stayed at the Greeny about a month or so back for a night. Popped a couple ceiling panels up pissed as fuck about two in the morning in the bathroom and found a bag with about a quarter ounce of vintage weed an old gatorade billy and what looked like parts of a pistol wrapped in a greasey towel.
One of those if the walls could talk joints for sure..
Is the weed still there and what room number?
Nup.
I walked out of the Night Club there , around 87 straight into a 6 man heat of the Quik National Surf League Finals ….. felt a bit Rusty walking down to pick up my singlet , but muscle memory kicked in after a minor spew , and I managed a second place for the team and went back to bed
Rockstar! Nice work on the 2nd place. You shouldn’t be held accountable for your reckless behavior prior to your heat. The 80’s made you do it.
I was just trying to have fun with the boys, on a weekend away , from being a tradesman and was hoping to get a root …. but failed miserably …. We spent the week in Surfers Paradise trying to cause havoc …. and I picked up a new board from Sky at Byron ( absolute Gem from Neil Cormack …. fluoro green ) listening to the Cult , getting my shoulder rubbed by a talented gay hairdresser’s balls , during the cut , and scoring waves at the only left hand point some where near Coffs Harbour … fun days … when I had hair worth cutting .
You knew you were getting a good cut when the groin was pushed into your shoulders.
I had the feeling that He really cared about his craft and his customer .
I’m guessing it was The Patch. I once walked the bass player from a North Shore band from there back to the hotel while he was singing, (to the tune of ‘Groove is in the Heart), “Groove is up my Arse” quite loudly.
Why all the hate for the sponge? They always seem to be having such a great time, swinging 360’s etc.
I’ve thought about this. It seems to come back to there not being that many people who take up bodyboarding who keep doing it for more than about 5 years. Just something you do as a teenager, but by the time you hit your 20s, it’s not all that exciting doing that same ‘swinging 360’. This morning, there’s about 50 people surfing, and only one booger. A 60yr old South African bloke. It basically counts as a fad, but for the occasional slabbing reef.
Besides, did Jeezuz walk on water, or slither on his guts?
Pretty sure Jesus was gay and was on his knees most of his life.
And further to the point about booger popularity. There are about 20 regular female surfers down the local which is tops.
Stayed there on a family holiday once, the rooms are like little capsules in which one could imagine they are bunkering down for a cryosleep, ready to travel through space and time to some new frontier.
Then you can walk downstairs and get glassed at the Twin Towns
Fuk Twinnys mate the Dolphin Hotel across the roads where its at.. Open at 9am during daylight savings, cheap schooeys $28 lobster tails and a rub and tug 2 doors down.
Dbah out the back and Snapper out the front ….as a grom I would have begged for the dog box and felt like I was at Hilton !
Is that a euphemism? Sure sounds like it.
Possibly more Youth n Gism ?
Ha keep in mind I spent 99% of my holidays in a van on mid north coast. This was the one qld trip we did in 20 years!
I don’t suppose the van had air con on the unknown coast from Taree to Coffs
I want to hear more about the glassing story.
So what about a BG crowd fund to buy Coolangatta and flip it to the WSL?
Venmo or Paypal?
Maybe the WSL, with Kelly Slater, could relocate the Sunshine Coast pool and eco-resort, including cultural centre, to Greenmount.
OMG, we make money removing the entire neighborhood to charge people for waves!!!!
You could write a book
Don’t do it. Torturous biz.
Couldnt be that hard
Oz is fucked. Cunts everywhere.
You have no idea
we got trumptards, too.
Yes, cunts galore. Weather very good, mostly, however.
Well that’s what cunts are there for, aren’t they?