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\n A vacant block near the center of the Gold Coast\u2019s once glitzy tourist strip is set to become the site of Australia\u2019s tallest tower \u2013 and the first with the surname Trump emblazoned across the top.\n <\/p>\n
\n Australia\u2019s Altus Property Group plans to build a 91-story tower, featuring a 285-room luxury 6-star hotel, high-end retail plaza, Michelin-starred restaurants and residential apartments finished to Trump specifications.\n <\/p>\n
\n Plans for Trump International Hotel & Tower Gold Coast are yet to be submitted to Gold Coast City Council for approval, but it\u2019s already the talk of the seaside strip \u2013 and not everyone is on board.\n <\/p>\n
\n A petition calling for the plan\u2019s rejection had more than 26,000 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon, with many saying they did not want to be associated with the Trump brand.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhy would we want anything to do with Trump coming to our country. He is poison and needs to stay out of Australia in every single way,\u201d said one person who signed the online petition, while another commented: \u201cThis is the worst idea ever and we cannot allow it to happen!\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n CK, who started the petition under an alias to avoid backlash from Trump supporters, told CNN she felt powerless while watching scenes of \u201canti-immigrant violence and the social division\u201d in the US on social media, and looked for a way to express her opposition.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cPeople believe that I am against job creation, but that\u2019s not true at all,\u201d
she said. \u201cI\u2019m just against the Trump brand.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cOur goal is to go to the Gold Coast Council and present this proposal in hopes to stop it,\u201d she added.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Longtime Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate is an enthusiastic supporter of the plan \u2013 and told Australian radio Tuesday that he\u2019d recently had dinner with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and found him to be \u201cvery, very likable.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Tate is in the US for \u201cG\u2019Day USA,\u201d an economic and diplomacy program that gives Australian and US dealmakers a chance to meet potential partners to build new relationships.\n <\/p>\n
\n Of the planned Trump Tower, Tate said: \u201cIt\u2019s quite incredible, actually, and it\u2019s all about quality.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n For the council, anything that promises an injection of funds into the tourist strip is welcome as it rebuilds the industry after difficult years during the Covid pandemic\n <\/p>\n
\n The proposed site is currently empty and has been since 2013, when concrete cancer forced the demolition of a much-loved hotel.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf we don\u2019t get this Trump Tower landmark there, we\u2019ll be empty for next 20 years again,\u201d said cafe worker Jordan Nguyen, who started his own petition to back the construction.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis proposal should be assessed on its planning merits and the benefits it can deliver to the community \u2013 not political opinions.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Apartments in the Gold Coast\u2019s Trump Tower are expected to sell for at 5 million Australian dollars ($3.5 million) \u2013 offering views over the Pacific Ocean and Surfers Paradise, a beach that\u2019s packed with tourists during the summer months.\n <\/p>\n
\n Martin Hall from the Gold Coast Central Chamber of Commerce, praised the development as a \u201cgold option\u201d for buyers in a growing market.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere\u2019s certainly no shortage of cranes around the Gold Coast at the moment. You\u2019ve just got to look at the skyline,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cGiven that we\u2019ve got the Olympics coming to South East Queensland and the whole of Queensland in 2032\u2026 having extra room spaces is welcomed.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Australia property developer David Young said he laid the groundwork for the Trump Tower back in 2007 with a \u201ccold-call to Ivanka Trump,\u201d according to a blog post on the property group\u2019s website.\n <\/p>\n
\n Young, the founder and CEO of the Altus Property Group, recalled introducing himself to Trump\u2019s daughter as a property developer from Australia, who was intent on building \u201cAustralia\u2019s finest tourist property at Surfers Paradise.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Almost 20 years later, the deal was signed with her younger brother Eric at Mar-a-Lago on February 14, and so began the arduous work of drawing designs and engineering plans to meet terms of the Trump licensing deal.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt will be an Australian, not American, project. It won\u2019t have a Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton brand above the front door, but it will say \u2018Trump,\u2019\u201d Young said, according to comments published in The Australian newspaper.\n <\/p>\n
\n While it\u2019s unclear when the development application will be lodged \u2013 or if it\u2019ll be approved \u2013 Young anticipates the building to be finished before Brisbane hosts the Summer Olympics in 2032.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt will be an iconic landmark property on Surfers Paradise Beach, the natural home to the well-heeled, and it will be finished before the Olympics start, creating a tourism adjunct to the Games themselves,\u201d Young told the Australian Financial Review.\n <\/p>\n
\n If approved, the 335-meter (1,099 feet) Gold Coast Trump Tower may not hold the title of Australia\u2019s tallest building for very long \u2013 if at all. That accolade will likely go to the nearby \u201cOne Park Lane\u201d which will be roughly 60 meters (195 feet) taller.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane, Australia \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 A vacant block near the center of the Gold Coast\u2019s once glitzy tourist strip is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-500780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}