Major developments to be completed in Toowoomba in 2023 revealed
From residential subdivisions to high-rise apartments and commercial enterprises, here are some of the major developments being completed this year.
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Toowoomba’s economy is booming right now and developers are cashing in by pushing through massive new projects across the region.
From residential subdivisions to high-rise apartments and commercial enterprises, here are some of the major developments being completed this year.
This is an evolving list — if you want to update us on a project to be completed in 2023, email us at thomas.gillespie@news.com.au.
1. WIRRAGLEN HOUSING ESTATE
Developer: Hallmark Property
Value: $25m
Construction started in last year on the $25m housing estate north of Toowoomba, which will accommodate hundreds of new families in the region once fully realised.
The project is being led by veteran developer Ian Knox’s company Hallmark Property, which turned sod on Wirraglen estate off Kleinton Road at Highfields in August.
Project manager Tim Colthup confirmed the civil works were expected to be completed in September.
2. MYLNE STREET CBD UNITS
Developer: Bernoth Properties
Value: $5m
Hutchinson Builders are on track to finish construction on Toowoomba’s newest inner-city units, located on Mylne Street just metres from Grand Central Shopping Centre.
At nearly 15m tall, the new 12-unit development by locals Barry and Mitchell Bernoth could trigger a wave of inner-city living across Toowoomba.
Hutchies team leader Sean Lees said the major contractor was hoping to finish the $5m project ahead of schedule in the new year.
We’re working on the third floor now and the process has been wonderful,” he told The Chronicle in October last year.
3. WILSONTON SHOPPING CENTRE, STAGE TWO
Developer: Consolidated Properties Group
Value: $25m
Construction is well advanced on the second and final stage of the Wilsonton Shopping Centre’s revamp.
Hutchinson Builders started earthworks in March last year, with the final product to take up the western side of the site and feature major tenants like 7-Eleven and Starbucks.
It comes nearly five years after CPG paid $50m for the centre in 2018, and caps off a total investment worth nearly $120m.
“The centre had been a little bit unloved, a little bit neglected, so our investment after this stage has been at about $120m and I think most people would agree the centre looks loved, we’ve spent money refurbishing it and re-tenanting it,” CPG chairman Don O’Rourke said at the sod turning in 2022.
“Both the car wash and 7-Eleven are due to be finished by the end of the year with Starbucks, a restaurant and specialties set to follow early next year.”
4. GLENVALE GP CLINIC, PHARMACY AND CHILDCARE CENTRE
Developer: Bernoth Properties
Value: Upwards of $4m
The finishing touches are being applied to a diverse commercial precinct on Greenwattle Street, which will provide much-needed services to the growing suburb of Glenvale.
Prominent local developers Barry and Mitchell Bernoth were approved by council in 2019 and 2022 for the new GP clinic, pharmacy and childcare centre.
Barry Bernoth told The Chronicle construction had been largely completed, with the fit-outs to be finished by February.
The Bernoths faced a legal challenge from a neighbouring property owner over the approval of the medical centre, but the appeal was dropped in June.
5. HEALTH, DISABILITY PRECINCT (FIRST STAGE)
Developer: Weymouth Investments
Value: $25m in total
Developers Rob and Cathy Weymouth have started work on the three-stage health and disability project, slated for an L-shaped block of land bordering both South and Greenwattle Streets in Glenvale.
The first stage would create 31 units of “specialist disability accommodation” on the site as well as a community centre and an allied health hub featuring 15 clinic rooms and physiotherapy and rehabilitation facilities such as a gym, pilates room and pool.
Mr Weymouth revealed the first part was on track to be completed by the end of 2023.
This will be followed by a medical centre in the near future.
6. VENTIA BUILDING REVAMP
Developer: Bernoth Properties
Value: $1m
One of the Toowoomba CBD’s most prominent pedestrian malls will receive a $1m facelift this year thanks to upgrades to the city’s tallest building.
Barry and Mitchell Bernoth have already started work revamping the Ventia building, formerly Easternwell, on Russell Street.
But the works will have major impacts for the Bell Street mall, with the Bernoths planning a complete revitalisation of the building’s ground floor entrance and walkway area connecting the pedestrian mall to Russell St.
Barry Bernoth said the project should be completed in the first half of the year.
7. ST VINCENT’S INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Developer: St Vincent’s Private Hospital
Value: $8m
St Vincent’s in East Toowoomba has been given the green light to add nearly 1000 sqm of floor area to its existing emergency department to create an intensive care unit.
It comes nearly two years after the $15m ED, dubbed the Clive Berghofer Wing Emergency Department and Queensland X-Ray Radiology Centre, was completed by Hutchinson Builders.
A spokeswoman for St Vincent’s said the new ICU, which would open next year, would boost health services at the hospital.
“Our ICU is an integral part of our hospital and Toowoomba’s healthcare landscape with 1200 patients receiving intensive care every year,” she said after the council approved the plan in September last year.
8. TORRINGTON INDUSTRIAL PRECINCT
Developer: Bernoth Properties
Value: $5m
Nearly six years after it was approved, construction looks set to be completed on a new industrial precinct in the city’s western suburbs.
Local developers Barry and Mitchell Bernoth first got the green light to create the 21-lot subdivision off Robson Hursley Road in Torrington back in 2017.
After a number of delays and changes, Barry Bernoth has revealed the project should be finished in 2023.
“They’re levelling each of the blocks because we want to put retaining walls in between the tenancies,” he told The Chronicle.
A number of the tenancies have already been taken, after being marketed through LJ Hooker Toowoomba.
9. MIDDLE RIDGE SUBDIVISION
Developer: Weymouth Investments
Value: $12m
Demand has been high for Rob and Cathy Weymouth’s most recent residential subdivision on Dallang Street in Middle Ridge, with the developers completely exhausting the 41-lot project.
Mr Weymouth said construction completed just days prior to the Christmas break in 2022, meaning homes will start going up this year.
“Just finished before Christmas and we’re waiting for titles back from council,” he said.
The housing estate is the largest of its kind on the landlocked eastern side of Ruthven Street since the 120-lot Leas Project in Middle Ridge several years ago and comes as demand for new housing in Toowoomba remains strong.
10. WATTLE GROVE SUBDIVISION
Developer: Bernoth Properties
Value: $3.5m
Not just content with building a new GP clinic, pharmacy and childcare centre, Barry and Mitchell Bernoth have also nearly completed a 22-lot subdivision behind this commercial precinct off Greenwattle Street in Harristown.
The new lots, measuring between 450 sqm and 700 sqm, will be split by a new road coming off Mooringa Drive, which feeds off Greenwattle Street.
Dubbed Wattle Grove, the subdivision is being marketed by LJ Hooker Toowoomba.
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