The Queensland authorities has introduced what it calls a “landmark growth alternative” for the non-public redevelopment of two websites on the northern fringe of Brisbane’s CBD right into a “thriving precinct” forward of town’s 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Video games.
The state-owned land features a pair of websites totalling 8,900 sq. metres – a 5,200-square-metre parcel at 200 Turbot Road and the state-heritage-listed Queensland Dental Hospital and Faculty at 168 Turbot Road. The latter, constructed within the interwar interval to a design by Raymond Nowland has been vacant since 2017, and would require restoration and adaptive reuse as a part of the proposal.
In accordance with the federal government’s media launch, “the brand new websites [offer] the potential to ship a spot to name dwelling for extra Queenslanders, enhance resort mattress numbers, or add to Brisbane’s inventory of workplace area beneath a course of that can be market-driven.”
The federal government’s plan would see the 2 websites developed with a mixed-use providing, together with high-rise housing, training amenities, boutique workplaces, retail or luxurious resort lodging.
Earlier proposals with related ambitions to revitalise the location have didn’t eventuate. In 2021, a 29-storey office-tower scheme designed by Blight Rayner Structure was lodged with Brisbane council on behalf of developer Mirvac, who, on the time, held an settlement with the federal government that allowed the corporate to carry off on buying the location till discovering an anchor tenant. The proposal was deserted by Mirvac in 2024 as a consequence of difficult market circumstances.
With the announcement of the federal government’s plan to promote the websites, Deputy Premier and Minister for State Improvement, Infrastructure and Planning Jarrod Bleijie mentioned they’re “getting on with the job of driving new growth via the activation of land that has set idle for years.”
Bleijie described the market launch as an “alternative for CBD revitalisation in Brisbane” and mentioned it might assist the creation of “a thriving precinct within the lead-up to the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Video games.”
The Turbot Road proposition follows Financial Improvement Queensland (EDQ)’s current launch of a South Brisbane web site, at present dwelling to the Visy glass recycling and manufacturing facility, with EDQ aiming to produce greater than 4,000 houses. A one-hectare web site adjoining to the Queensland Tennis Centre at Yeerongpilly has additionally been newly launched by EDQ for market growth right into a high-density mixed-use precinct.
Expressions of curiosity from builders, buyers and operators within the Turbot Road websites may be made on the EDQ web site till 5 March 2026.
