New visitors centre opens at Queen’s Wharf to showcase integrated resort and casino
The $3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf resort and casino mega-development, which is set to reshape the heart of Brisbane, is now open to the public like never before.
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A NEW visitors centre at the heart of Brisbane’s new $3.6 billion integrated resort and casino has opened to the public.
The Queen’s Wharf Visitors Centre, located along George St, includes a miniature scale model of the development, new renders, a virtual reality experience allowing people to see inside the development and a cafe.
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Representatives of the Destination Brisbane Consortium say the new facility will be toured by school groups and will be open to all members of the public.
It comes after the official residences display suite, situated seven storeys above ground, was yesterday unveiled to prospective buyers.
The Courier-Mail yesterday revealed that construction of a second residential tower could be brought forward following strong apartment pre-sales.
There are four miniature models of Queen’s Wharf and the CBD across the visitors centre and display residences, some of which took an army of eight men five months to complete.
It was also revealed today that construction of a second residential tower could be brought forward following strong apartment pre-sales.
Touring the new visitors centre, Star Entertainment chairman John O’Neill AO said he hoped people would come off the street to get a better sense of what this development would offer.
“It’s a big deal,” Mr O’Neill said.
“Transformative, game-changer, whatever the descriptor is, is not an exaggeration. It’s quite unbelievable.”
Destination Brisbane Consortium project manager Simon Crooks said the new centre would give locals the best idea yet of what the $3.6 billion development would mean for Queenslanders.
“It’s got a bit of everything,” Mr Crooks said.
“The whole idea is to get people involved, to get them excited,” he said.
“To give people a feel of what it’s going to be like.”
Mr Crooks said tour groups were already planning to come through the centre, and he hoped nearby school excursions would also make a pit stop there to look at the miniatures and use the virtual reality tour.
He said teams of crews from Coorparoo worked for months to complete the miniature models throughout the centre, the largest of which spans all the way from West End to Kangaroo Point and New Farm.
“There’s a massive model there, you don’t see them at this scale,” Mr Crooks said.
“We’ve even jumped the gun and put Brisbane Live in there,” he said, referring to the proposal to put an entertainment centre above Roma St station.
The neighbouring cafe was also designed to give visitors a taste of the precinct’s planned 50 bars, cafes and restaurants.
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