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Gold Coast Bulletin
25 April 1973
$32m SCHEME FOR HEART OF SURFERS
company applied to the Gold Coast City Council for permission to go ahead with a $32 million redevelopment plan for the heart of Surfers Paradise.
The project featured a giant complex featuring a circular 33-storey tower block as the centrepiece of an international hotel.
Other features included a major convention centre, department store, supermarket, specialty stores, bus terminal, cinema, offices, a new surf club, sports facilities and landscaped public areas.
It also provided for developing part of Cavill Ave as a pedestrian mall.
The redevelopment project was to involve the entire block between the Gold Coast Highway, Cavill Ave and Hanlan St.
Hanover Holdings Ltd had an option to buy the block from the Chevron Hotel Group.
Under the plan the Surfers Paradise Hotel and other buildings would be bulldozed to make way for the hotel.
A dominant feature was to be the