Sunshine Coast Council and its partners, SunCentral and Walker Corporation, are welcoming a new era for the Maroochydore City Centre, with amendments to its Development Scheme to reshape the vibrancy and attractiveness of the CBD now in place.
The foundations of a 10-Gigabit city may look similar to everyday plumbing equipment but their capabilities will bring the Coast an immense technological edge.
Maroochydore CBD is on track to accommodate a supercharged fast rail service should the North Coast Connect business case successfully secure Federal Government funding.
SunCentral Maroochydore, responsible for designing and delivering the new 53-hectare city centre, welcomed today’s announcement in Nambour by Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher and Infrastructure and Transport Minister Michael McCormack.
The Sunshine Coast will open up to more airborne visitors as a result of the construction of a new airport runway, generating demand for more tourism accommodation and services.
Construction and engineering group John Holland has been awarded the $225 million contract to deliver a new and enlarged runway at the Sunshine Coast Airport. The runway is due for completion by Christmas 2020.
A decade after being put onto the drawing board, work on a 2½-kilometre second airport runway tipped to generate 2200 jobs and $4 billion in revenue will begin on Thursday morning on the Sunshine Coast.
On Thursday morning, Sunshine Coast Council will announce civil infrastructure giant John Holland Group will build the runway at the Marcoola airport.
A new city centre being created at Maroochydore on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast will be the first in the world designed specifically for driverless cars.
Although developments such as shopping centres and airport carparks were being adapted to suit autonomous vehicles, the Maroochydore Central Business District poses a greenfields opportunity for developers SunCentral.
From the second half of this year the first streets of the region's new city centre will be open to the public.
Work is rolling on at the Maroochydore City Centre site and development manager SunCentral's CEO John Knaggs said the first commercial buildings would also start to rise from the ground in the latter half of this year.
After a joint venture deal was struck last year which is set to create a new city hall and possible university campuses in the new CBD Mr Knaggs said they were currently closing in on finalising deals for at least two other commercial buildings.
Forty-five minute train trips between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast are being touted in a proposal pushing for billions of dollars in federal government rail funding.
The North Coast Connect project would see the long-awaited duplication of the line between Beerburrum and Nambour and add a new rail spur connecting the region’s main coastal hubs to Brisbane for the first time.
It has been a huge year in the development of the new Maroochydore City Centre. The 53ha greenfield site at the heart of Aerodrome Rd, Maud St, Dalton Dr, Plaza Pde and Maroochy Blvd has been a blur of activity throughout 2017, with the completion of the first stage of bulk earthworks followed by the start of civil construction.
The Sunshine Coast has long been identified as one of the fastest growing precincts in South East Queensland with some major infrastructure projects well underway.
Both the National Australia Bank and a recent BIS Schrapnel Report identified the Sunshine Coast as one of the best property markets in the country at the present time.
In the world of e-business, one second makes all the difference.
That one second could make a billion dollars worth of difference to the Queensland economy.
That is what the Sunshine Coast is counting on when, on Saturday, it calls for expressions of interest from the private sector to build a $1 billion undersea communications cable into the Sunshine Coast.
Announcement of a winning contractor to build a new runway at Sunshine Coast Airport is "imminent", according to expansion project director Ross Ullman.
His team will on Thursday recommend to a Sunshine Coast Council meeting the best way to proceed in regards to five bids short-listed for the runway construction contract.
The special meeting, which will be closed to the public, comes after councillors met on Thursday last week to discuss major projects for the region.
Labor has promised to invest $15 million into the Sunshine Coast's international broadband submarine cable project - one of the six infrastructure priorities identified by Sunshine Coast Council - if re-elected.
The undersea cable would connect the Sunshine Coast directly with global communications systems.
Council's recent feasibility study found the cable and associated facilities would create 864 full-time jobs a year on the Sunshine Coast and provide a potential economic boost of $927 million to Queensland
Stand aside Brisbane and Gold Coast, there’s a new boom market in town.
Experts predict Sunshine Coast real estate prices will skyrocket on the back of rising infrastructure spending, industry growth, jobs and lifestyle.
Analysis of region’s market over the past 12-months revealed 14 suburbs where housing achieved capital gains of 10 per cent or better, with Buddina, Forest Glen, Meridan Plains and Noosa Heads all breaking the 13 per cent barrier.
The Sunshine Coast has again been named in the top 21 "smartest" communities in the world, as the Intelligent Community Forum announces the semi-finalists for the major international award.
Region's internet link would support a new CBD and tech-hub
The Sunshine Coast intends to become Australia's next technology hub and is proceeding with plans to install the country's newest submarine internet cable link and to develop a hi-tech town centre.
Business hotel groups are circling the new Maroochydore CBD project with several leading brands expressing interest in developing and operating a venue in the city centre.