A crowd of people outside seated on light-up stools, public bench space, and colourful seats and tables at dusk, with trees lit up with fairy lights behind them.

Local South Australian family-owned business McMahon Services has begun setting up on the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site marking the start of demolition works.

The East, Hone and Cobalt Wings and the Emergency Link will be the first structures to be brought down during Stage One of demolition and remediation, which is expected to take up to year and support up to 100 local jobs.

Visit the former Royal Adelaide Hospital site page for further details of the demolition planned for Stage One.

The demolition milestone follows another successful activations: the L.I.T. (Light. Innovation. Technology.) festival, which drew 1500 people to the East End on Saturday night. Using the former hospital as a backdrop, the event combined colourful, engaging and interactive lighting artworks, including the interactive display, The Hive (launched in October). Visitors got an early look at the golden Adelaide_Portal and the chance to interact with people from as far away as Herat, Afghanistan, while enjoying KIK Coffee, thanks to our latest Works Program.

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