The South Australian government is looking for a proponent to develop its “flagship” Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre at Lot Fourteen, the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Partly funded under the Adelaide City Deal, with the federal government contributing $20 million to the project, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre will be a multi-storey building with a focus on “multidisciplinary innovation, collaboration and entrepreneurship.”
The state government said that tenants interested in the building included those from the federal government, the university sector and global defence and technology companies.
A “collaborative and curated” Innovation Hub will occupy the ground and first floors to facilitate interaction between industry and research.
Adelaide architecture firm Baukultur prepared the indicative concept design for the centre while Doug and Wolf did the visualization.
Premier Steven Marshall launched an Expression of Interest process for the centre on 30 July, looking for a proponent to design, finance, construct and own the building.
“We are establishing Lot Fourteen as the epicentre of South Australia’s vision to be the leading centre for future industries and entrepreneurship in the Southern Hemisphere,” he said.
“It is rapidly developing into a magnet for international companies from across space, defence, cyber, big data, machine learning and much more.”
The successful proponent would have to move quickly, with the government targeting the second quarter of 2021 for the start of construction.
Expressions of Interests will be open until 2 pm local time on Thursday 10 September.
