Gold Coast development: Plans for old Gold Coast Bulletin complex at Molendinar

The old Gold Coast Bulletin site has been unoccupied for more than six years. Now plans have been lodged which will see the former newspaper complex transformed.

NEW plans for the old Gold Coast Bulletin site have been revealed.

Popeye Paper has filed a development application with the Gold Coast City Council to construct an industrial building at 385 Southport-Nerang Road in Molendinar.

The site has been vacant since the existing buildings were demolished earlier this year.

The proposed building.

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The new building will be created on the old carpark section of the 23,952 sqm parcel.

It will have a loading bay, maintenance and storage facilities and offices.

The Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper was based on the site from 1978 until 2013 when its offices relocated to Southport.

RFG later bought the land to create its planned global headquarters but went on to sell it for $6.5 million to businessman Tony Quinn.

The old Gold Coast Bulletin complex was demolished earlier this year. Picture: Glenn Hampson

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“I just thought, well that’s gonna be a good buy and … there’s a shortage of land on the Gold Coast,” Mr Quinn told the Bulletin last year.

“It has some weird attraction, because of its history.

“I was inside the printing hall and there were still some remnants there. I just thought, what a cool thing. I wonder how many stories have gone through those walls? There have murders, marriages, developments, all sorts of stories went through there.”