Work on $15 million development at former Glenelg Cinema site to start in two months An artist's impression of the proposed development of the former Glenelg Cinema site on Jetty Rd, Glenelg. WORK on a $15 million two-storey retail and office complex at the former Wallis cinema site on Jetty Rd will start in two months. Wallis spokesman Philip Roberts said today he expected work on the development would start by the end of March. "We're very keen to get on with it and we are anxious to have it completed by late in the year or early next year," he said. The prominent site has remained vacant since August 2011, when the landmark 1937 Art Deco Glenelg Cinema was demolished. The original plans for the development were refused by Holdfast Bay Council's Development Assessment Panel (DAP) in December, 2009 but were approved after a successful court appeal in March, 2011. Revised plans, which added a 38-space rooftop carpark, accessed from the upper carpark of the adjoining Bayside Village, were approved last August. At the time Wallis said it planned to have the building work completed by August 2012. Holdfast Bay's DAP last week granted Wallis a 12 month extension to start work on the development. Holdfast Bay CEO Justin Lynch said the extension was approved to allow the developer more time for planning work. "A series of variations to the approved development required detailed redesign and the developer also needed to liaise with an adjoining landowner about integrating aspects of the two sites," Mr Lynch said.