IndustrialPhil BartschFri 09 Oct 26
LogiSPACE Plots Major Freight Hub on Brisbane Fairways
Sydney-based developer and fund manager LogiSPACE is making a bold play as the new kid on Australia’s logistics and warehouse block, moving rapidly to stake its claim in Queensland’s supply-starved industrial sector.
It has lodged plans for a major industrial hub on a 11.5ha slice of the Oxley Golf Club—about 15km south-west of the Brisbane CBD.
Overall, the scheme would deliver a trio of high-spec warehouse buildings with a combined gross floor area of 72,655sq m on the prime parcel at 2264 Ipswich Road.
The release of the site and redevelopment plans have been triggered by Brisbane City Council’s planned four-lane widening of Boundary Road, which will effectively sever Oxley Golf Club’s northern fairways and force the consolidation of its 18-hole course south of the corridor.
“Council’s planned Boundary Road upgrades will prevent the safe and practical movement of golfers between the northern and southern portions of the course, necessitating the consolidation of golf club operations south of Boundary Road,” the application said.
“The subject site will therefore no longer be required for the ongoing operation of the golf course.”
The club plans to reinvest the proceeds from the sale of the site into a new championship-standard 18-hole golf course and expanded community recreation precinct on its southern side.
Targeting the city’s high-demand South West Industrial Gateway as institutional capital scrambles for strategic logistics holdings in South-East Queensland, LogiSPACE is seeking rezoning of the site from Sport and Recreation to General Industry to accommodate the state-of-the-art freight and warehousing facilities.
The scheme designed by Sparc Architects includes high-bay warehouses of 20,928sq m, 23,891sq m and 27,836sq m—each with two-level corporate office entries—that would be delivered in two stages.
Low, medium, and high-impact industry uses, research and technology, as well as ancillary food and drink outlets or shops up to 250 square metres are included.
A key feature of the proposed logistics hub is an 8490sq m super awning spanning the central courtyard for all-weather loading. As well, the estate would provide 384 carparking spaces and end-of-trip facilities.
According to the development application prepared by urban planning consultancy Urbis, the proposal is aimed at capitalising on a market that research indicated was holding less than five years of industrial land supply.
An industrial needs assessment identified an acute shortage of development-ready industrial land across Brisbane.
“This is supported by a report commissioned by the Property Council Australia in 2025 evaluating industrial land availability, which found that the Greater Brisbane region holds only ~4.9 years of combined industrial development stock,” the documents said.
“Demand is being driven by continued population growth, evolving supply chains, e-commerce activity and the increasing need for modern industrial premises within well connected industrial precincts.”
In its planning report, Urbis also noted the Oxley site was already “effectively enclosed by industrial, transport and institutional land uses and does not adjoin any residentially zoned land”.
“The proposal therefore represents a logical extension of the surrounding industrial area and an appropriate long-term land use outcome for the site.”
Macquarie Asset Management-backed LogiSPACE—headed by Darren Searle and Troy Bryant, who were both with LOGOS which was acquired by ESR Group—is being positioned to become a major player in the logistics and warehouse sector.
It was launched in March after securing a site on Miller Road in western Sydney’s Chester Hill, which is earmarked for a $238 million logistics project.
Wasting no time, it then made its Queensland debut in June with the purchase of two adjoining parcels totalling 8.7ha at Brendale on Brisbane’s northside slated for a planned $167-million logistics estate.
