If one were wanting to imagine what the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games Athlete village would look like the chance is now here as the games village is about 80km to the south of Gold Coast. The build to rent community now has about 2500 people living there with the shortest rent being up to 6 months and the longest rent being up to 2 years.
Hamilton Northshore has been recognized as a potential Brisbane Games athlete’s village and because of this the transition from Southport shows how the government owned riverside land could be transformed Olympic housing to commercial housing. At Southport, between 2012 and 2018, EDQ oversaw the development of 30 hectares into the 2018 Commonwealth Games athletes’ village precinct.
In total, 1251 units were built in 19 apartment towers to house 6000 athletes in a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom units .Today, 17 of the 19 former athletes’ village towers have been transformed, with kitchen facilities added, into modern one-, two- and three-bedroom units that are all rented.
The residential transformation was completed by James Lang LaSalle, which appointed Grocon to do the work, and subsequently enlisted real estate company Smith Collective to rent and manage the new community. These 17 towers are 80 per cent full. COVID-19 slowed things last year, but it has since bounced back.
