Harmony in 5 years: What’s next for booming Sunshine Coast suburb

The Harmony estate at Palmview is set to be a “small city” and home to 18,000 residents when 2026 rolls around. Here’s how it will look.

Ari Morrison and Jack Webster and their two kids moved into their family home in the Harmony community in mid-2020.

A burgeoning Coast estate is expected to become a hub of restaurants, watering holes and sporting facilities flanked with educational and employment opportunities in the next five years.

Avid Property Group has taken out its crystal ball to provide exclusive insight to how its Harmony estate at Palmview will look in five years’ time.

Avid general manager Bruce Harper said the estate would be almost completed and ahead of schedule because of a demand for land that significantly outweighed supply.

There will be an array of primary and a special school options and a secondary school that’s coming in 2023.

Driving down to Brisbane is expected to be easier with a new Bruce Highway connection in place.

Harmony’s Linear Park will be twice its current size in 2026.

Residents will be able to shop at a “vibrant and attractive” town centre that’s anchored by a supermarket and a tavern.

Sporting fields and open space will be a core part of the estate to provide its residents with an abundance of fitness orientated options.

The $3 billion community was launched in late 2017 on old cane and cattle farm land.

Mr Harper said the estate had originally been intended to be a 15-year project.

“It will be nearly completed by 2026,” Mr Harper said.

Avid Property Group general manager Bruce Harper predicted its flagship Harmony estate would be close to completed by 2026. Picture: Supplied.

“We are almost over halfway through the project. Half the estate has sold within three-and-a-half years.”

Demand has increased in the past 12 months, with hundreds of hopeful buyers forced to camp out in tents overnight to secure a prized block of land at the estate.

Mr Harper said Harmony estate drew inspiration from the North Lakes community in Brisbane’s north but on a more modern, fresh look.

“North Lakes is a great development and was iconic at its time, but the way communities have developed a broader open space requirements, there’s more sophistication to them now,” he said.

Site plans of Harmony estate’s street directory when completed.

He said construction was due to start later in 2021 on a Bruce Highway connection.

He said that would provide residents with another gateway and smoother travel to the southeast and the north.

“It’s an important part of the suburb, having a second access and a route to the Bruce Highway,” he said.

It will provide motorists with an alternative to the existing main entry to the estate – Peter Crosby Way – which was named after a pioneering farmer who owned the land.

The late Mr Crosby ran cattle and grew cane on the farm.

Mr Harper said plan were in place for an over-50s lifestyle living opportunity, similar to Halcyon at Buderim.

The number of district level sporting facilities is expected to have doubled in the estate by 2026 to cater for more clubs to be formed across an array of sports.

Some will be subject to council approval but could include multi-use, netball or football facilities.

Harmony will be home to 18,000 residents in 5000 dwellings when it nears completion in 2026, according to developer Avid Property Group.

Mr Harper said the group was exploring options that would create employment opportunities within the estate.

“There will importantly be job opportunities in our town centre, large bulk goods stores that will be developed, commercial ones, we have 1500sq m of gross leasable area with room for a supermarket and tavern set-up,” he said.

Grand Linear Park, a series of parks equipped with unique facilities and identities which form a central corridor of open green space, is set to double in size.

“That’s one of the things Harmony residents really see as a unique product that’s unlike elsewhere, it sets it apart,” he said of the park.