Coomera Gold Coast -
The Town Centre

The Coomera Gold Coast town centre, in the exploding Brisbane-Gold Coast corridor, will eventually be home to almost 70,000- more than the current population of cities such as Rockhampton. It will service a surrounding catchment area of at least 200,000 residents.

Millions of dollars worth of land purchased by the State Government as well as a parcel owned by the Dreamworld theme park, form a part of the site earmarked for the town centre. Coomera Gold Coast area councillor, David Power said the centre would dwarf the master-planned satellite town of Robina and rival the Gold Coast CBD of Southport as a retail, commercial and residential hub.

“It is a massive project that will probably take some 20 years to fully develop,” Cr. Power said. “We are talking about an area that will ultimately house more than 65,000 residents and will have a catchment of some 200,000 to 250,000 people stretching from Gaven in the south to Ormeau in the north and west to Tamborine”.

Cr. Power said the Coomera Town Centre was so large and significant it would probably require its own Act of Parliament, similar to the legislation which paved the way for Robina, which is expected to house about 38,000 when fully developed.

The Coomera centre would feature 100,000sq.m of shops and office buildings and residential accommodation, including medium-rise apartment towers providing residents with views from Stradbroke Island to Surfers Paradise.

Cr. Power said that unlike Robina, which has a central commercial centre surrounded by housing, at Coomera shops and homes would be side by side. “In that sense, it will be more of a traditional town centre,” he said.

The State Government has also earmarked the town centre for an education precinct, including a TAFE college and possibly university. Work on the first shops and commercial buildings could start as early as this year, Cr Power said. He said Coomera was a strategic location for a town centre because of its central position in the Brisbane-Gold Coast corridor.

The Coomera Town Centre would help cater for the Cold Coast’s record growth, which was bringing at least 14,000 new residents a year to the tourist strip. The Coast’s population of almost 460,000 residents is growing at about 3.5 percent a year and is forecast to reach 500,000 by next year.

There were 825,000 international visitors to the Coast in the past year, up by 10 percent. Domestic visitors totalled 3,568 million, up just one percent on the previous year. There are now 508,000 people permanently residing on the Gold Coast and this figure is expected to hit the 600,000 mark by 2010.

The Gold Coast is the fastest growing region in Australia.

Source: Midwood Research Report 2007



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