Rhodes. Premier opens tower

Premier Barry O’Farrell has opened Meriton’s 24-storey tower containing 263 apartment, at Rhodes. Meriton paid $35 million towards the $90 million clean-up bill of the Rhodes peninsula, which used to be a high;y polluted industrial site and is now a high-density residential district. Meriton told Mr O“Farrell that the site needed a ferry wharf.