East End, Adelaide

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The East End is a small part of the Adelaide central business district, close to East Terrace and North Terrace. This area is a popular office and retail district and has an increasing residential interest from the building of high-density luxury apartments in the area.

1 Main Streets
2 Apartment Development
3 Events
4 References

[edit] Main Streets

The retail centre of the East End is Rundle Street, Adelaide. Although the area is not officially demarcated, its approximate boundaries are North Terrace, East Terrace, Pulteney Street and Flinders Street. It is also sometimes stated as including parts of Kent Town and parklands locations such as the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and the National Wine Centre of Australia. Other major streets are Frome Street, Grenfell Street and Pirie Street.

There is one square in the area, Hindmarsh Square. The area is surrounded by parklands on two side.

[edit] Apartment Development

At the eastern end of Rundle Street, there was the site of Adelaide's original fruit and vegetable wholesale markets. These closed in the 1980s and after a long and controversial decision making process, involving some government money, the Garden East (or East End Astoria) apartment development was built. This was the start of a growing number of prestige apartments in the area.

Since that time but more in the 20th century apartments have been built on much smaller blocks of land with decreasing attention paid to the quality of development.

Garden East aparments (circa early 1990s)

Bent Street apartments (built in 2005)

[edit] Events

The East End is a popular spot in Adelaide for large events. This includes:

The preliminary stage (stage 0) of the Tour Down Under. Called the Jacob's Creek Down Under Classic, it is a street circuit race around the four sides of Rymill Park^[1]
The cross country stage of the Adelaide Horse Trials runs through the parklands and is free entry to all. This is normally the Saturday of the November event.
Being part of the Adelaide Street Circuit currently used for the Adelaide 500.