Parking to be scrapped by council at Gold Coast’s Home of the Arts for new HOTA gallery

BIG changes are in store for the Gold Coast’s Home of the Arts at Evandale, with a popular feature to be scrapped by the council to make way for its $60 million gallery.

BIG changes are in store for the Gold Coast’s Home of the Arts at Evandale, with a popular feature to be scrapped by the council to make way for its $60 million gallery.

A carpark on the site’s southern side will be removed and replaced by the gallery, which is part of the $80 million second stage of the HOTA cultural precinct.

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How HOTA will change with the gallery replacing carparking.

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The 112 spaces will be removed when construction begins on the gallery next year.

However they will be replaced by 123 new spaces which will be created from parts of the Evandale parklands on the site’s southern side opposite the council chambers.

The council filed the development application this week with itself.

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The gallery.

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Earlier this month, Mayor Tom Tate unveiled stage 2, which will include both a gallery and a pedestrian bridge between Chevron Island and Evandale.

The gallery will have a floorspace of 6500 sqm across five levels and will be the biggest regional art gallery in Australia.

The gallery has an expected opening date of October 2020, while the green bridge will be finished in October 2019.

HOTA at night.

The new green bridge