Albion Park Paceway Olympic transformation confirmed
After months of speculation the state government has confirmed Albion Park Paceway will make way for a landmark Olympic development.
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Albion Park Paceway will be the site of a new major indoor sports centre ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the state government confirming the site.
Speculation over where the new Breakfast Creek Indoor Sports Centre would be built had been rife, with a concept plan released by the Brisbane City Council mid-last year showing the sports centre being built on the Brothers Rugby Club site at Crosby Park.
But Deputy Premier Steven Miles told The Courier-Mail the current Albion Park Paceway had now been confirmed as the location, and said the venue would be a “a great new sporting facility that will service the Queensland community for decades to come”.
“The proposed new Indoor Sports Centre will be a 12-court high-performance, para-sporting Centre that will host local, national and international sporting events including basketball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, netball, volleyball and badminton,” he said.
“Work on the master plan for the mixed-use community precinct at Albion is continuing, including increasing indoor and outdoor sporting facilities, open green
space and housing.”
The venue would also play host to the Olympic basketball and Paralympic wheelchair basketball at the Brisbane 2032 Games.
Dr Miles said the government would work with the sporting clubs who currently utilise the site, in an attempt to ensure ongoing works causes minimal disruption.
“The Queensland Government also continues to work with Racing Queensland on their future location,” he said.
The new venue is one of the sporting facilities which fall under the state and federal government’s joint $1.87bn Games venue deal, which means it would be a shared cost – but the total cost of the venue has not yet been revealed.
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