Brisbane 2032 Games: Details of Logan sport precinct emerge

A last-minute addition to Queensland’s list of 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues will include nine multi-use courts and 7000 stadium seats as the first details of the project including where it will be are released.

The Olympics venue in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Logan electorate that was added at the last minute will include a 7000-seat indoor stadium, new details reveal.

Despite no confirmation yet what the “Logan multi-use sport precinct” might be used for in 2032, the tender documents reveal it will be a substantial new structure in the heart of Logan with nine multi-use courts for sports ranging from basketball to gymnastics.

A site is yet to be confirmed, but it will be built in the central Logan area and will be a “short walk” to the Woodridge train station.

The project, in Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ electorate of Rankin, was quietly added to list of venues to be federally funded when the state government struck a 50-50 funding deal with the federal government in February.

It is the first time any detail regarding the scope and location of the venue has been released.

The state government this week released documents to the market in a bid to find a principal consultant to provide design and cost options for two “indoor sports centres” for the Games, in Moreton Bay and Logan.

When it was announced Mr Chalmers did not answers questions about whether the Logan venue was a prerequisite of the funding deal, but said he was “thrilled”.

Government documents outline the Logan venue will have “nine-multi-use” indoor courts to provide the local community “with a range of indoor sports, community and recreation opportunities and events hosting”.

A Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning spokeswoman confirmed the centre would cater to a “vast range of sports including basketball, netball, volleyball, gymnastics, futsal, badminton, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball”.

The venue is set to be located in Logan Central and “close to Logan Entertainment Centre and a short walk to Woodridge rail station”.

Treasurer and Member for Rankin Jim Chalmers with federal Sport Minister Anika Wells (rear) and stakeholders

A search of available spots in the area show there is state-owned land within the Woodridge State High School precinct on Wembley Rd, which is next to a Brisbane City Council owned plot of bushland.

There is privately owned land on the corner of Gilmore and Bardon roads yet to be developed.

The department’s spokeswoman would only confirm work was “underway to confirm a location”.

Unlike the Logan venue the use of a new Moreton Bay Indoor Sports Centre for the Games was locked down years ago, with the site to host boxing events.

It will have 7000 seats, two warm-up areas and boxing rings.

The document described it as a “legacy venue” set to be a multipurpose facility with “nine courts marked out to host a number of different sports, for example: basketball, netball, volleyball and badminton”.

The contracts out for the Logan and Moreton Bay venues mirror the ones awarded in late March for the Redlands Whitewater and Wyaralong Flatwater centres, which totalled $869,000.

The International Olympic Committee’s “new norm” reforms, with Brisbane 2032 as the test case, mean 84 per cent of Games venues are temporary or ones that already exist.

The “new” venues on the list include indoor sports centres at Breakfast Creek, Logan, Chandler, Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast, and the whitewater centre on the Redland and flat water precinct at Wyaralong.

The federal government is also putting money toward upgrading the existing venues of the Brisbane Aquatic Centre, the Anna Meares velodrome, Brisbane’s shooting centre, tennis centre, and the Wyaralong flat water precinct.