Lot Fourteen
Lot Fourteen is a business and technology precinct at the eastern end of North Terrace in Adelaide city centre, South Australia.
The 7 ha (17-acre) site formerly accommodated the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, which was moved to a new building at the western end of North Terrace in 2017.
The headquarters of the Australian Space Agency, a Commonwealth government department, are located in the McEwin Building, along with SmartSat CRC and other space-related companies.
The Stone & Chalk start-up hub, in the old Allied Health Building, houses the MIT's bigdata Living Lab, along with 45 other technology-focused enterprises.
With the focus on its development as an "innovation hub", the state budget in September allocated A$476 million over five years to government authority Renewal SA to help lure startups and industries associated with the Australian Space Agency, which would be located on the site.
[12] On 12 December 2018, Prime Minister Scott Morrison officially announced that the Australian Space Agency, a department of the federal government, would be located at Lot Fourteen in 2019.
[14] Also in June, the state government announced an injection of federal funds, which made a total of A$551 million, known as the "Adelaide City Deal", much of which would be used on Lot Fourteen.
By that time, there were a number of space-related companies already there or signed on, and plans for the Gallery for Aboriginal Art and Cultures, an International Centre for Food, Hospitality and Tourism Studies and an Indigenous Business Hub were being consolidated.
[2] Canadian expert Ilse Treurnicht, formerly CEO of the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, a not-for-profit innovation complex built on the site of an old hospital, was invited to submit recommendations to the government in September 2019, during a second visit arranged by the Don Dunstan Foundation.
[15] Also in June, the independent not-for-profit innovation hub operator Stone & Chalk was commissioned to help start-ups at the site develop and grow and to provide advice to the government.
[2] In September 2020, Ireland-based professional services company Accenture announced that they would be establishing in hub in Adelaide, with premises at Lot Fourteen.
[24] A$60 million of the Adelaide City Deal was earmarked for developing the International Centre for Food, Hospitality and Tourism Studies, with construction planned to begin in 2021.
[2] The Stone & Chalk startup hub, housed in the old Allied Health Building, provides office space to 45 technology-focused enterprises, and also the MIT's bigdata Living Lab.
The company will work on the Defence Department's "Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot" (RMS) program, which includes the development and launching of at least four satellites over the following eight years.
The newest one is BAE Systems, which will move from its current headquarters in Edinburgh, South Australia, bringing around 500 employees to the site.
[20] In December 2021, construction began on the Aboriginal Arts and Cultures Centre (AACC), which was assigned the name Tarrkarri, meaning "the future" in the Kaurna language.
Premier Peter Malinauskas said that the plans were being considered by cabinet, stating "It's potentially a very big project, it is an important site, culturally it's significant, so we just want to make sure we get it right".
[37] A new sculpture by Sundari Carmody, entitled One: all that we can see, is a 4 m (13 ft) wide a large tubular ring, fashioned from steel and with LED light at the top was unveiled in June 2022.
