First look at what will be the biggest community centre ever on the Gold Coast

Gold Coast Council has released designs of a massive new community centre which will be three times the size of Helensvale Library.

COUNCIL has released the designs of the Gold Coast’s biggest ever regional community centre.

Councillors at full council today endorsed the scope and design of the Coomera Civic Hub to be built next to the Westfield Coomera shopping centre.

The three level building will be three times the size of the existing Helensvale Library and include a 400-seat auditorium and multi-purpose community centre.

Deputy Mayor and northern based councillor Donna Gates said the civic hub was being planned now to cater for a population growth of another 200,000 people in the next 20 years which was “greater than the population of Townsville today”.

The new Coomera Civic Hub will be built adjacent to Westfield Coomera.

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“It’s our biggest ever regional community centre. There will be a state of art library, a lot of community facilities. We are actually building an extra level on this facility so we can lease it out to the private sector,” Cr Gates said.

“We are going to plan ahead, build for the future. It will be massive. It’s something that’s been proposed for over 40 years that we would develop this area into one of our key regional areas in the city.”

The Coomera Civic Hub will be three times the size of the existing Helensvale Library.

Cr Gates said it would take “a number of years” to fully fund and design the civic hub.

“I would imagine that it would probably be in the next term of council that you will see significant moves and delivery in about five years,” Cr Gates said.

The economic analysis by council shows a positive cost benefit ratio where every $1 million invested in the centre would generate $1.6 million in community benefits.

“The city is continuing to negotiate the commercial terms of the agreement (with Westfield Coomera),” Cr Gates said.

“Once agreed, appropriate contractual arrangements would be executed and the detailed design, approvals and construction undertaken. A funding plan will be submitted to council in the future.”