Plans for second Park Ridge shopping hub and units

Park Ridge residents could soon be living and shopping at a new complex opposite the Park Ridge Shopping Centre.

The Park Ridge Shopping Centre, near where there are plans for a new retail, commercial and residential complex. Cr Jacob Heremaia will move out of the Park Ridge Town Centre this month; and road works which have started at Park Ridge near where there are plans for a new complex and residential development.

Park Ridge residents could soon be living and shopping at a new complex opposite the Park Ridge Shopping Centre and Town Centre.

Logan City Council is assessing development plans for the proposal which includes 11 buildings, up to 304 residential units, 1703sq m of commercial use and 8524sq m of retail space.

An artist’s impression of the proposed Park Ridge retail, commercial and residential complex.

Plans submitted show the proposed site as a block of land running between Kantenna St and Jedfire St at Park Ridge, opposite the existing shopping centre and next door to the Park Ridge Tavern.

Jedfire St was the address used by Logan City councillor Jacob Heremaia on his election material prior to the March poll.

He later changed the authorisation address to 3 Clunies Ross Court, Eight Mile Plains.

Developer David Wheldon and Ethos Urban, which is listed at St Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley, have asked for initial permission to use Kantenna St and build three roads, two linking the cul-de-sacs of Kantenna St and Jedfire St and another linking Mt Lindesay Highway.

The block of land sandwiched in between Kantenna St in the north and Jedfire St and the existing Park Ridge Shopping Centre in the south. The Park Ridge tavern is to the west of the site.

Plans propose traffic lights and a left-in, left-out intersection and future requests to council will include renaming Jedfire St as Doug White Drive.

The developers proposed building the project over three stages with the first to include the construction of community uses, retail and residential buildings with stage two to include more retail and residential buildings. Commercial buildings will be built in stage three.

A traffic impact assessment also found a five-leg roundabout would be needed eventually at the Park Ridge Rd and Park Ridge Shopping Centre access.

Road works at Park Ridge this week.

Logan City Council is expected to vote on a confidential report about a road closure in Park Ridge on Wednesday at the last full council meeting for the year.

Cr Heremaia, who was elected as the councillor for the area in March, told last week’s City Infrastructure Committee meeting that he had no declarable conflict of interest at Jedfire St.

When asked if he had any interests in those properties in the confidential report about road closures in Park Ridge, Cr Heremaia said he was unsure about the definition of an interest.

Election material for Jacob Heremaia.

“I can confirm that neither me, nor my related parties, own properties that have been mentioned in that (confidential) report, nor have any sort of financial arrangement or contract with any person or company which owns the properties mentioned in that report,” he said.

“I am not sure what the definition of an interest is. I do know what the definition of a personal interest is and how that relates to the public interest and I can confirm that the personal interests of me or my related parties or persons don’t override the public interest.

“But I am not sure about the definition of interest.”

Cr Heremaia later disclosed that he had a contract for office space in the Park Ridge Town Centre which he said was of market value but was “coming to an end” as he was moving out at the end of the month.