Ex-Egg Farmers Hatch Plan for 2300 Mango Hill Homes

One of Australia’s biggest egg-farming families is swapping poultry for property starting with plans for an employment hub and more than 2300 homes north of Brisbane.

The Pace family has filed plans for a precinct of towers up to 30 storeys on a 10.4ha site at 1785-1813 Anzac Avenue, Mango Hill.

The site is across the road from Westfield North Lakes, about 30km from the CBD by road.

The family sold its Pace Farming business in 2023 to “focus on acquisition and development of quality properties and projects” in growth areas, according to the PSA Consulting report accompanying the application now before the City of Moreton Bay.

These plans designed by Archipelago included 23 medium to highrise towers in the mixed-use development centred around a lineal piazza that would create a new employment campus in the region, the application said. 

A scheme of 715 apartments across 13 towers and a shoptop office tower was approved for the site in 2018, however this did not “capitalise on the connectivity”.

The site could facilitate higher-density living and “accordingly, the applicant’s vision for the site has evolved”.

The towers of 8 to 30 storeys would comprise 2329 apartments while 118,023sq m of commercial space would be across buildings of 8 to 10 storeys.

▲ A rendering of a main street in the future proposed Mango Hill Urban Village precinct.

The ground floor level of each building would cumulatively add 6600sq m for food, drink and retail spaces across the Mango Hill Urban Village project. 

There is 12,313sq m of landscaping planned for around the development, including an open-space precinct with stormwater drainage and pathways to a nearby train station. 

Sydney-based Pace Farm is the second largest egg farming supplier in Australia. It was sold to Roc Partners for about $350 million.

The property at Mango Hill was a pine plantation cleared in the 1990s and is part of a larger development-control plan in the City of Moreton Bay.

The plans for the 1023ha adopted in 2011 include 25,000 homes and a major shopping centre near the Mango Hill Railway Station, which was opened in 2016.