In 1970, plans were released for a 1500 unit development on a Darlinghurst site bounded by Darlinghurst Road, Liverpool Street, Forbes Street, and Farrell Avenue.
This included three towers with heights of:
594 feet (182 metres)
548 feet (167 metres)
459 feet (140 metres)
The towers would rise over a landscaped podium with the towers consuming just 25 % of the five and a half hectare site.
Apart from "resort style" facilities, there was also a small retail complex to be built to provide for the residents.
What would have happened had it been built?
Firstly, the nearby Horizon Tower would not be so lonely!!! It would struggle for attention like it does today.
But I do believe if events had stayed the same, the towers would still dominate the area today and would rather to a testament to bad planning of the period. With development limited, they could remain there uncontested.
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