Gympie Road, Chermside medical, office, retail tower project: See the plans
A cluster of suburbs are about to turn into Brisbane’s health super hub. See the latest project driving the transformation.
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The inner-north is continuing to rapidly evolve as Brisbane’s health super hub with plans revealed for a new nine-level medical, retail and office building in Chermside.
The project, fronting Gympie Rd, Wallace St and Norman Drive, is only 500m from Prince Charles Hospital and near St Vincents Private Hospital.
It is also next to QML pathology, Wallace Street Specialist Centre and Brisbane North Eye Centre and comes after a spate of 23 development applications for GP clinics from Stafford to Chermside.
Town planners Mewing Planning Consultants said in the development application (DA) documents that the new building would have a medical centre, specialist consulting suites and commercial offices, with ground floor retail and dining outlets fronting Gympie Rd.
The health facilities would be on levels 4 and 5, with the offices on levels 7 and 8, all above a four-storey podium.
Vehicle access would be from Wallace St, not congested Gympie Rd.
A cantilever was proposed to allow for three podium levels of parking for 182 cars and 20 motorbikes.
The car park included ambulance and van bays and also access for on-site servicing.
However, Mewing said many users would walk or take public transport as the site was 400m from Chermside Bus Interchange and the Northern Transitway project which, when finished early next year, would run past the development.
The controversial Transitway would carry bus priority services from Kedron to Chermside on deviated lanes on Gympie Rd.
Mewing said the project stepped down to five levels away from Gympie Rd and included landscaping, retail spaces, a pedestrian mall, lobby and outdoor dining fronting Gympie Rd to soften its appearance at street level.
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