How much money has already been spent on developing new Mac Point AFL stadium
The future home of the Tasmania Devils Football Club is estimated to cost $775m, as part of a $1bn-plus redevelopment at Mac Point. Here’s how much has already been spent.
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Work to progress a multi-purpose stadium at Macquarie Point continues full steam ahead, with the agency responsible for delivering the future playing home of the Tasmania Devils inking contracts totalling more than $60m last financial year.
In its annual report tabled in parliament this week, the Macquarie Point Development Corporation revealed it had signed a$38m deal with Cox Architecture to act as the 23,000-seat stadium’s lead design consultant, and a $14.5m agreement with Capital Insight to deliver project management services over the next five years.
The corporation also locked in $3.4m worth of quantity surveying services at the site with Hobart-based WT Partnership.
The roofed stadium, which has been estimated to cost $775m, is part of a $1bn-plus redevelopment of Macquarie Point being undertaken by the corporation.
Describing the 2023/24 period as “a busy year” for MPDC, chair Kim Evans and chief executive Anne Beach said the corporation was progressing final remediation works on site, developing a refreshed draft Precinct Plan, and building a team to progress a Project of State Significance application to develop the stadium.
“Early in the financial year we delivered a draft Precinct Plan for the site,” Mr Evans and Ms Beach said in the annual report.
“The release of the draft Precinct Plan followed an extensive public consultation period over 10 weeks which was promoted online, in newspapers, on television and in shopping centres across the state.
“The Precinct Plan sets out development areas in zones across the site and was informed by over 2000 public written submissions and surveys, more than 100 meetings with local organisations, businesses and individuals, and collaboration and input from consultants and partner agencies.
“A further round of public consultation was undertaken on the draft plan, which went on to support the finalisation of the Precinct Plan in early 2024-25.”
The report said the concept design for the stadium, being developed for submission for the Project of State Significance process, will be supported by ongoing input received through user workshops.
The current design includes a 23,000-seat capacity stadium, with 1500 additional standing spaces, 31,500 patron capacity for major concert events, and a 1500-person function room with views to the field of play.
Remediation of the Macquarie Point site also continued last financial year with more than 12,000 cubic metres of contaminated material removed, and another 1400 cubic metres of tar-impacted material treated on site.
The corporation comprised 16 employees last financial year, and spent $812,000 on remuneration for its two senior managers and board members.
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