First look: Little Projects redesign Old Burleigh Road, Broadbeach apartment tower

Two Melbourne developers are pushing on with their prime apartment development site on one of Broadbeach's best streets.

Little Projects, in a joint venture with fellow Melbourne-based developer R.Corp, has gone back to the drawing board for their luxury apartment tower at 118 Old Burleigh Road, on the corner of Australia Avenue.

Since being knocked back by the Gold Coast City Council for their initial 30-level plans by DKO in early 2023 which would have seen 33 apartments delivered, Little Projects and R.Corp have been working with council and have now officially submitted new plans by Plus Architecture.

They will be still targeting the high-end buyer in the building that was initially dubbed One Australia.

The tower will now be seven levels smaller and will home just 20 full-floor apartments, each with four bedrooms, 274 sqm of internal living space and a 20 sqm balcony. The only exception will be a two-level penthouse with 530 sqm of indoor and outdoor space. It will have four bedrooms and a private rooftop terrace with a pool, firepit area, outdoor kitchen and alfresco space.

The resident amenity will sit on the first level and will comprise a swimming pool with accompanying day beds, a gym with a sauna, and a work from home space off the entry lobby.

The project will have three levels of basement with parking for 29 cars.

The 690 sqm site was bought through development site amalgamation specialists GV Property Group, who got the eight owners of the two-storey walk-up, around 40 years old, to band together the sell the prime site. 

GV had over eight offers for the site from both local and interstate developers when it sold in 2022.

The initial plans by DKO were for a much skinnier tower. Image credit: DKO

One Australia will be R.Corp's first venture in the Gold Coast. Little Projects has previously developed in Broadbeach, having significant success with Signature, their higher density development on Elizabeth Avenue.

Little Projects, led by Leighton Pyke, also had a site at 20 Mary Avenue in Broadbeach, where they had planned a luxury tower before recently offloading the site.