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Breaking: 'Toxic': Plan to build 91-storey Trump Tower on Gold Coast scrapped

ABC Australia · May 12, 2026, 9:16 PM

Key takeaways

  • The plan to build a Trump Tower on the Gold Coast has been abandoned.
  • The 91-storey, branded tower proposed for Surfers Paradise would have been Australia's tallest building.
  • Altus Property Group chief executive and founder David Young, who proposed the project, said the Trump Organization had pulled out but he still hoped a tower would be built on the site.

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The plan to build a Trump Tower on the Gold Coast has been abandoned. (Supplied: Altus Property Group)

Link copied Share Share article Plans for a $1.5 billion Trump Tower on the Gold Coast have been scrapped less than three months after the deal was made.

The 91-storey, branded tower proposed for Surfers Paradise would have been Australia's tallest building.

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