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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner is calling on the Queensland government to commit about a third of an inner-city <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/games-inspire-golden-decade-of-development-in-qld">Olympics precinct development</a> to social and affordable housing. </p><p>Schrinner said he wanted the state government to double its commitment and reserve 30 per cent of the 2000 apartments slated for the Cross River Rail Woolloongabba precinct for social and affordable housing for key workers.</p><p>“This would deliver about 600 social and affordable apartments just 2km from the CBD on a site that will have both a train and bus station, as well as a dedicated Brisbane Metro Station just a short distance away,” Schrinner said. </p><p>“It would also double the number of new public housing properties the state government has managed to deliver across all of Queensland since 2017.”</p><p>A Queensland government spokesperson confirmed the government had committed to turning 50 per cent of the new Gabba precinct into open space.</p><p>“We’ve also made it a requirement that a minimum of 15 per cent of residences be high quality social or affordable housing,” the spokesperson said.</p><p>“Investigations into the appropriate supply of social or affordable housing will be undertaken over the next 10 months as part of the detailed planning for the precinct including consideration of public realm, stadium redevelopment and transport connections.”</p><p>Social and affordable housing is also earmarked for the Roma Street Cross River Rail precinct at a rate of 10 per cent. </p><p>The Palaszczuk government’s $2.9 billion housing investment is due to deliver 7400 new social and affordable housing commencements across Queensland by mid-2025.</p><p>The Woolloongabba priority development area was expanded late last year from 10 hectares to 21 hectares, <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/brisbane-olympics-property-price-prediction">encompassing The Gabba and an area east of Main Street as part of the 2032 Olympic Games redevelopment</a>. </p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/2a82c26a-dd2f-4045-864c-ce1bf796c9d6.jpeg" width="720"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8"><br>▲ An artist&#x27;s impression of how the Gabba could look after redevelopment.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>“As property prices grow and rental properties become harder to find, the state government needs to find ways to provide more social and affordable housing,” Schrinner said.</p><p>“Given the average house in the Gabba is now more than $1 million, reserving affordable housing for essential workers like nurses and teachers who may work nearby should be considered.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/brisbane-olympics-2032-development-infrastructure-projects">Development in the priority development area is currently governed under an interim land use plan</a>, with a formal scheme due to be released for consultation later this year. </p><p>Minister for Transport and Main Roads Mark Bailey said the new land use plan included “specific provisions for affordable and social housing” in addition to public space. </p><p>“It protects and maintains our commitment to ensure the Gabba precinct includes 50 per cent open space as well as affordable housing for nurses, teachers and other frontline workers,” Bailey said.</p><p>“The community will be able to have its say on the PDA [this year] when a proposed development scheme is released for public consultation.</p><p>“Pumping more than $4 million a day into the economy, this critical project is helping drive Queensland’s economic recovery from Covid and was key to securing the Games.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/south-bank-20-visy-olympics-brisbane">Woolloongabba will become the epicentre of the Brisbane Olympics in 2032</a> with a billion-dollar overhaul of The Gabba stadium in addition to the Cross River Rail terminal and plaza.</p><p>Corelogic head of research Tim Lawless said the area was <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/olympic-games-brisbane-property">“likely to see a lift in desirability”</a>.</p><p>“The area is already popular with investors, with around two-thirds of the housing stock in and around Woolloongabba being rented,” he said.</p><p>“The proximity of the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Mater Hospital provides a permanent level of localised housing demand, along with easy access to the Brisbane CBD, universities and Southbank precincts.”</p><p>Woolloongabba unit prices are at the lower end of the inner south unit markets.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>Work will begin in March to build a 480-metre cable-stay pedestrian and cycle bridge linking key precincts in South Brisbane to a new Cross River Rail train station at Boggo Road.</p><p>It’s part of the $5.4-billion Cross River Rail project taking shape across Brisbane, and will connect and service critical infrastructure including the Princess Alexandra Hospital, the Boggo Road Ecosciences precinct and the city’s newest high school at Dutton Park. </p><p>The state government-led project will comprise a 10.2km rail line from Dutton Park in Brisbane’s southern suburbs to Bowen Hills in the city’s north, with a 5.9km tunnel under the CBD.</p><p>Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk unveiled designs for the bridge and said the Cross River Rail project was critical to the state’s economic recovery.</p><p>“We’re building Cross River Rail—<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/top-australia-transport-infrastructure-projects">the largest infrastructure project in Queensland’s history</a>—not just to create jobs, but to make it easier for locals to travel throughout the southeast,” Palaszczuk said.</p><p>“Linking our public transport system with the hospital, new high school and the new science and education precinct will make it easier for many locals to get to work and access essential services.”</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/b41a5b55-bd9d-48d4-a175-f5dbc5ea1657.jpg" width="1000"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8"><br>▲ The Boggo Road Bridge will consist of a 45m high spire, 1600 tonnes of steel, and 43-metre tall pylons, with 683m of cable stay.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>The cable-stay bridge will be almost half a kilometre long with a cable spire rising to 45 metres. </p><p>The main deck will be about 20m above the ground and more than 6m wide, constructed from 1600 tonnes of steel, and 43m tall pylons with 683m of cable stay and five individual steel girders weighing up to 133 tonnes each. </p><p>Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said it was a key piece of infrastructure as well as the delivery of four new train stations.</p><p>“Cross River Rail is a truly transformational project, injecting $4 millon a day into the economy by supporting jobs and industries across the state,” Bailey said.</p><p>“Last year was full of massive milestones for the project as we completed the year of tunnelling, and we’re continuing that momentum into 2022.</p><p>“The bridge and the new station it connects with will see Boggo Road become south-east Queensland’s second busiest transport interchange with more than 22,000 commuters using the new station each weekday by 2036.”</p><p>Twin tunnel-boring machines completed their 4km journeys last year, breaking through to the surface, while excavations at the Boggo Road station are now complete and the build is under way. </p><p>Construction of the bridge is due to start in March and should be completed in late 2023. The Cross River Rail project is due for completion in 2024. </p><p>Late last year the <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/qic-to-develop-four-cross-river-rail-station-precincts">Queensland Investment Corporation was appointed as precinct developer</a>.</p><p>The state-owned company will develop the land above the Roma Street, Boggo Road, Woolloongabba and Albert Street stations.</p><p>The stations will play a key role in the 2032 Olympics with their precincts strategically located near major venues, including The Gabba and Brisbane Arena.</p><p>QIC global real estate managing director Michael O’Brien said they were proud to take on the role.</p><p>“This is an unprecedented opportunity for QIC to work with the Queensland government, Cross River Rail Development Authority and EDQ to refine the masterplans for the above-ground sites with the goal of providing Brisbane with connected city-shaping lifestyle, residential and commercial precincts,” O’Brien said.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

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Queensland Investment Corporation, QIC, will be shaping Cross River Rail master plans after taking on the role as precinct developer.

<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>The Queensland Investment Corporation will shape Brisbane’s Cross River Rail masterplans after being appointed as precinct developer. </p><p></p><p>The state-owned company will develop the land above the Roma Street, Boggo Road, Woolloongabba and Albert Street stations.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The stations will play a key role in the 2032 Olympics with their  precincts strategically located near <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/brisbane-olympics-2032-development-infrastructure-projects">major venues, including The Gabba and Brisbane Arena</a>.</p><p></p><p>QIC global real estate managing director Michael O’Brien said they were proud to take on the role.</p><p></p><p>“This is an unprecedented opportunity for QIC to work with the Queensland government, Cross River Rail Development Authority and EDQ to refine the masterplans for the above-ground sites with the goal of providing Brisbane with connected city-shaping lifestyle, residential and commercial precincts,” O’Brien said.</p><p>Lendlease investment boss Kylie Rampa was <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/kylie-rampa-lendlease-qic-appointment">recently named as the new chief executive of QIC</a> and will begin in the role in April, 2022, replacing outgoing boss Damien Frawley.</p><p>The Cross River Rail Delivery Authority remains responsible for the underground tunnels, stations and rail works.</p><p>Development of the precincts will commence once construction of the tunnel, rail and station infrastructure is complete, which is expected in 2023 and 2024.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/ead30a70-131d-4e52-a062-31f1dcb22bea.jpg" width="800"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">▲ The development scheme provides for new social and affordable housing as part of new residential buildings parallel to the rail corridor.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>Recently Cross River Rail <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/roma-street-plan-approval-olympic-swimming-venue">unveiled the Roma Street Station priority development area scheme</a> which included the addition of five residential towers on Parkland Boulevard between College Road and the busway.</p><p></p><p>The scheme showed 10 per cent of the residential developments in the area would have three bedrooms or more and that there would also be a 10 per cent affordable or social housing component.</p><p></p><p>It also included provisions for a new indoor arena for the Olympics that is likely to host swimming and waterpolo, upgraded pedestrian connections, a hectare of new land for community uses and protection of the existing 11ha parkland.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>Demolition, tunnelling and new stations are on track on the government&#x27;s $6 billion-plus Cross River Rail project as major contractors pass critical project milestones this year.</p><p>Eleven new worksites will be opened and 1,500 workers employed as the project doubles in size with demolition at Roma Street and Albert Street, tunnelling starting between Woolloongabba to Boggo Road, station upgrades and work starting on new Gold Coast stations.</p><p>There will be three major infrastructure works taken out on the Cross River Rail by the state government and private sector.</p><p>The <a href="https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/consortium-announced-for-54bn-cross-river-rail">Pulse consortium will deliver</a> the tunnel, stations and development—a partnership led by CIMIC Group companies, Pacific Partnerships, CPB Contractors, and UGL with international partners DIF, BAM and Ghella.</p><p>Unity Alliance will deliver the rail, integration and systems bringing together CPB Contractors, UGL, AECOM and Jacobs, and partners Hassell, RCS Australia, Acmena, Martinus Rail and Wired Overhead Solutions.</p><p>Work has begun on the new European train control system set to be piloted on the Shorncliffe line to be delivered by Hitachi Rail STS.</p><p>Cross River Rail minister Kate Jones said they already had 1,000 workers and seven worksites open around Brisbane.</p><p>“A worksite has now been established at Boggo Road, the existing site at Woolloongabba is already a hive of activity, demolition at Albert Street in the heart of the CBD is well advanced and work at Roma Street is well and truly under way,” she said.</p><p>“Regular rail users may have noticed extensive work has also begun in our rail corridors, particularly near Normanby where the project’s northern tunnel portal will be built.”</p><p>Work is also expected to start at the RNA Showgrounds Exhibition station, at stations from Salisbury through to Fairfield, on the Gold Coast where new stations are being created at Pimpama, Helensvale North and Merrimac and at the project’s Southern tunnel portal, south of Boggo Road.</p><p>This follows a busy year for the project which saw major contractors, established multiple new worksites, revealed the location of three new Gold Coast stations and launched a Precincts Delivery Strategy.</p><p><em>Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story referred to a $20 billion figure for the Cross River Rail. This refers to the estimated gross development value of the five stations. The government has committed $5.4 billion to the project, with an added $1.45 billion in private partnerships. </em></p></div></div></div>

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<div class="row" data-reactroot=""><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>Locations have been announced for the first of seven new railway stations to be built on the Gold Coast line — to cope with a rapidly growing population.</p><p>The first three stations will be built by 2024 and be delivered through the funding allocated to Brisbane’s $5.4 billion Cross River Rail project, however pricing for each station remains undisclosed.</p><p>A station located at Pimpama will be the first of three new stations that will be built on the northern Gold Coast as part of the $5.4 billion Cross-River Rail project, along with stations at Helensvale North and Merrimac.</p><p>The Pimpama location was selected in order to “ease” the demands on the nearest station at Ormeau.</p><p>Gold Coast construction giant Norm Rix said he had offered to build the Pimpama Station yet discussions with the government had yet to materialise.</p><p>The businessman, shopping centre owner and former city councillor has spent his career building a large portion of the Gold Coast’s landscape.</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/9e374d74-fe40-4ab1-9df9-2b5f69fc81ca.jpg" width="800"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">▲ Patronage on the Gold Coast line had grown by more than five per cent for the past five years – with over 5.8 million trips in the past 12 months.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>“With the population expected to grow by an extra 350,000 residents over the next 25 years, better public transport is crucial on the Gold Coast,” minister for innovation Kate Jones said.</p><p>Cross River Rail is a 10.2 kilometre rail line from Dutton Park to Bowen Hills, with a 5.9 kilometre twin tunnel under the Brisbane River and CBD, four new underground stations and upgrades to existing stations.</p><p>Through Cross River Rail, the Queensland government will create an extra 3,150 seats with trains departing to from the Gold Coast to Brisbane every five minutes during the morning peak period.</p><p>A further four stations will be built on the southern Gold Coast as part of the mooted heavy rail extension between Varsity Lakes and the border. They will be built at Tallebudgera, Elanora, Tugun and Gold Coast Airport.</p><p>Rail bridges will be built across Reedy Creek Road and Bermuda Street before the line crosses to the western side of the M1 where the Tallebudgera station will be built.</p><p>The railway line will go under 19th Ave at Palm Beach, with the route remaining on the western side of the highway south to Elanora.</p><p>South of Elanora the trains would pass through a station at Tugun near Boyd St and circle back north to arrive at Gold Coast Airport.</p><p>Public consultation will begin next month for the community to provide feedback on the proposed concept station designs.</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/b7449f50-c24e-4776-b29f-c4196a56a90e.jpg" width="800"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">▲ The Queensland government will create an extra 3,150 seats with trains departing to from the Gold Coast.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><h2><br><strong>Brisbane Metro to extend to airport</strong></h2></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p>Brisbane lord mayor Adrian Schrinner has proposed expanding the Brisbane Metro project to Brisbane Airport.</p><p>The $944 million project, the first stage of which has not yet commenced, will now see the submission to the 2020 Brisbane Airport Master Plan revised.</p><p>If the project is approved, the new Metro service would potentially run along Airport Drive and even through the Airport link tunnel on a new public transport corridor, offering a competitive service to the Airtrain.</p><p>The exact design of the metro vehicles has not yet been finalised nor a successful tenderer announced, but the lord mayor is renewing plans for the Metro to run all the way to the airport.</p></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><div><picture><img src="https://tud-prod-tudmedia-oj9w2zshuo0o.s3.amazonaws.com/raw/images/6488d328-66e7-4141-9698-6504f365c528.gif" width="800"/></picture><div><span style="align-content:center;opacity:0.8">▲ The Brisbane Metro in action. Image: Supplied</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="row ci"><div class="cell cs12 cx12"><div class="ci cl"><p><br>“My ambition is to deliver the Brisbane Metro to get people home quicker and put more buses in the suburbs,” Schrinner said.</p><p>“It&#x27;s one thing for occasional airline passengers to pay the cost of an Airtrain journey but it is unaffordable for the 24,000 workers commuting every day to the airport and the growing jobs hub.”</p><p>Brisbane Council has not yet revealed the finer details regarding costing and delivery — but it is likely that the proposed line would not be up and running until after 2036.</p><p>The first and second lines of the Brisbane Metro are expected to be operational by 2023, while a Metro three line has also been proposed for the city’s northern suburbs.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

  Locations have been announced for the first of seven new railway stations to be built on the Gold Coast line.

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