The changing face of Brisbane

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Brisbane Live

  • $2 billion
  • 2018 - 2022
  • Brisbane Live is a $2 billion arena-centred entertainment precinct at Roma Street, Brisbane with a Madison Square Garden-style 17,000 seat entertainment arena as its centrepiece, along with outdoor amphitheatres, cinemas, restaurants, bars, hotels, and residences.
  • Brisbane Live website »
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Brisbane Metro

  • $944 million
  • 2017 - 2023
  • Delivering the first stage of the new Brisbane Metro will mean a 21km turn-up-and-go service, with two dedicated lines connecting 18 stations from Eight Mile Plains to Roma Street and Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital to the University of Queensland.
  • Brisbane Metro website »
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Millennium Square

  • $2 billion
  • 2018 - 2021
  • Millennium Square is touted as Australia’s first ‘mediapolis’, co-locating new knowledge media businesses in a worldclass workplace within a vital and vibrant urban precinct. The project’s major features include a 44,000sqm commercial office building, a media innovation centre, high quality retail centre of up 42,000sqm, up to 1700 rooms across seven apartment towers and a 187-room hotel and public plaza.
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Brisbane Showgrounds

  • $2.9 billion
  • 2017 - 2018 (stage 3)
  • The regeneration of the Brisbane Showgrounds is transforming more than 22 ha on the Ekka site into a vibrant yearround destination. It includes 340,000sqm of residential, commercial and retail buildings, together with an additional 76,000sqm of new development on RNA retained land.
  • Brisbane Showgrounds website »
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Cross River Rail

  • $5.4 billion
  • 2017 - 2024
  • Cross River Rail is a 10.2km rail line between Dutton Park and Bowen Hills that includes a 5.9km twin tunnel under the Brisbane River and the CBD. The project includes four new underground stations at Boggo Road, Woolloongabba, Albert Street, Roma Street and redevelopment of two existing over ground stations at Dutton Park and the Exhibition which will be used by 164,000 passengers daily. Each new station will generate unique opportunities for property development and economic growth and revitalisation of these inner-city precincts.
  • Cross River Rail website »
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Brisbane Quarter

  • $800 million
  • 2016 - late 2019
  • Brisbane Quarter at 300 George Street includes Australia’s first purpose-built W Hotel, two levels of riverside dinning and luxury retail shopping beneath a 40 storey state-of-the-art Prime Grade office tower and an 82-storey luxury residential apartment building.
  • Brisbane Quarter website »
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Queen's Wharf

  • $3.6 billion
  • 2017 - 2024
  • Queen’s Wharf is an integrated resort development covering more than 26 ha. The project includes four new hotels, including The Ritz-Carlton Brisbane and the six Star Rosewood, which will provide more than 1000 hotel rooms.
  • Queen's Wharf website »
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South Bank Southpoint

  • $600 million
  • 2016 - 2018
  • Southpoint is home to Brisbane’s second luxury boutique Emporium Hotel plus three towers comprising 413 residential apartments, commercial office space, and an estimated $40 million, 4500sqm retail and dining plaza.
  • South Bank Southpoint website »
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Howard Smith Wharves

  • $110 million
  • 2017 - late 2018
  • The Howard Smith Wharves are being transformed into a world-class 2.7 ha riverside recreation, lifestyle, event and tourism precinct with access to and from the Brisbane River.
  • Howard Smith Wharves website »
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Waterfront Precinct

  • $1.5 billion
  • 2020 - 2026
  • A new waterfront precinct which includes parkland, retail, hotel and commercial space over 3.2 ha of prime waterfront CBD at Eagle Street Pier, Eagle Street (gold tower), 12 Eagle Street (blue tower) and Naldham House (Brisbane Polo Club).
  • Waterfront Precinct website »
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International Cruise Terminal

  • $160 million
  • 2018 - late 2019
  • Brisbane’s first mega-cruise ship terminal at Luggage Point will be able to cater for vessels longer than 270m. The terminal building will be 9300sqm set over two levels and connected to a 200m long wharf with two air bridges for passengers. There will also be public open spaces, parking, plus extensive landscaping across the site.
  • International Cruise Terminal website »
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Gabba Precinct Upgrade

  • TBC
  • TBC
  • The Gabba’s 10-15-year ‘master plan’ includes a new “grand entrance” to the stadium, landscaped public gardens with big screens, and walkways over Main, Vulture and Stanley streets.
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Northshore

  • $5 billion
  • 2020 - 2035
  • Northshore is the largest waterfront urban renewal project in Queensland with luxury riverside apartments, commercial space, boutique retail shops, restaurants and bars. Up to 20 per cent of the site is green space with landscaped parks and swimming pools.
  • Northshore website »

What the experts are saying

  • There has never been such a perfect alignment of infrastructure that will forever change the city.
    John O’Sullivan, Managing Director
    Tourism Australia
  • Individually each of the projects is impressive but collectively they represent a once-in-a-generation level of investment coming on line within a narrow window of our city’s history. Over the next five years, Brisbane will experience investment in new major projects on a scale not seen even during Expo 88.
    Nick Behrens, Director
    Queensland Economic Advocacy Solutions
  • The fact that these projects are largely being funded by the private sector shows that there is confidence that the loans used to build them can be repaid and the projects are needed.
    Dr Tony Matthews, Urban Planner
    Griffith University
  • The city is growing and the aviation industry is growing, so we need the capacity. The best airports are those with healthy home markets. We have population growth in southeast Queensland, an affluent populace and we also are attractive to tourists.
    Gert-Jan de Graaff, Chief Executive
    Brisbane Airport Corporation
  • While Queensland is still feeling the impact of the end of the mining downturn, there is increasing investment in tourism and transport infrastructure. Large projects such as Cross River Rail, Queen’s Wharf and the Brisbane Live Entertainment Precinct will improve confidence in the years ahead.
    Pradeep Philip, Partner
    Deloitte Access Economics Queensland
  • We think waterfront destinations become a city’s face to the world. The process of developing this place (Waterfront Precinct) is the key to rediscovering and defining the identity of Brisbane. This is a world-leading project and will show how great public spaces can anchor and drive waterfront precincts.
    Ethan Kent, Senior Vice President
    Project for public spaces
  • That (development pipeline in the inner-city) will have a direct impact on economic activity and confidence in the market as well as having an impact on inner-city living because it will draw construction workers to the area. Couple that with population growth and the outlook is increasingly positive for Brisbane.
    Leigh Warner, National director of residential research
    JLL
  • While many visitors to Queensland traditionally arrive via Brisbane, the increase in (visitor) numbers for the River City was significantly higher than increases in other regions of the state... the surge coincides with a new generation of tourism development for the city, including high-end hotels and Star Entertainment’s multibilliondollar Queen’s Wharf integrated resort.
    Jeremy Pierce, Tourism Reporter
    Courier-Mail
  • What I’m seeing is the recognition of the amount of infrastructure and investment currently under way in Brisbane, Queen’s Wharf Casino and the Cross River Rail are getting all the headlines, and deservedly so, but the second runway at the airport will be an absolute game changer for the city. Combine that with Brisbane Live, Howard Smith Wharves and the rest, Brisbane is getting a lot of attention from interstate and also overseas.
    Mike Walsh, Director
    Middle Markets, CBRE
  • It’s such a small footprint of road space in the inner city we are not able to get more people in, that’s why we have to be building Metro, building Cross River Rail, building the bikeways to give people other options.
    Matthew Burke, Associate Professor
    Griffith University
  • Almost $30 billion in projects are either under way in Brisbane or planned. By 2025 the old girl would have had a significant facelift ... I love celebrating everything good about this city.
    Ben Davis
    4BC Radio
  • We have never seen anything like this. We all refer to Expo 88 as the game-changer, and it was, but this suite of new developments is on a completely different scale.
    Daniel Gschwind, CEO
    Tourism Industry Council
  • Stroll through the CBD and the city’s inner environs and you can already get a sense that in a few short years Brisbane will be transformed into quite possibly Australia’s most attractive and interesting capital city.
    Matt Condon, Associate Editor
    Courier-Mail
  • Queen’s Wharf will ... redefine the city. That’s really exciting and it can’t come soon enough. From Brisbane’s point of view, there is now a series of interesting, sexy, genuinely world-class hotels both already built and in the near-term pipeline.
    Richard Crawford, Pacific region development chief
    Marriott International
  • The cluttered roads around the Gabba, however, are one of the venue’s most unattractive features, meaning the proposed Cross River Rail project, which promises a station near the Gabba, is crucial.
    Robert Craddock, Chief Sports Writer
    Courier-Mail
  • Catalytic projects including a second airport runway, the Cross River Rail and Metro public transport systems, a new cruise ship terminal and the Queen’s Wharf integrated resort precinct will position it (Brisbane) to become a modern hub based on lifestyle.
    Bernard Salt, Demographer
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