According to reports, the previous owners decided to sell these assets to capitalise on the current market conditions. The new owners, however, will have the opportunity to generate strong revenues from this acquisition.
Trader Dukes Caboolture and Kings Circle Shopping Centre are located on a major arterial road leading up to the Sunshine Coast and cover 8,082 square metres.
The retail site has existing stable tenancies, which include a busy medical centre and SPAR, the local supermarket. Trader Dukes Caboolture is a fully-equipped sports bar with gaming rooms and approved EGMs, as well as a selection of bottleshops.
Savills Australia negotiated the deal off-market but did not disclose the new owners.
Recent years have seen a development boom in the area, located in the Moreton Bay Region about an hour’s drive from Brisbane. In 2016, the region’s population was 67,460 and was estimated to grow by 91,468 in five years.
It’s an exciting time for the Caboolture Sports Club, following the confirmation that the Cararinhas, Brazil’s FIFA Women’s World Cup team, will be calling Burpengary their home whilst training for the 2023 season.
Aside from training, the women will also be hosting community programs and holding open sessions for the fans.
Paul Shorter, the president of Caboolture Sports Club, said that they are looking forward to having “one of the best teams in the world” on their training grounds as this will be a huge boost to the club’s membership and the presence of women in sports.
The community will also be thrilled to cheer for the Cararinhas alongside the Matildas, FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand team, which will host the tournament from 20 July to 23 August 2023.
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According to Mayor Peter Flannery, Moreton Bay Regional Council has long been in discussions with FIFA for this opportunity and he’s grateful to the Brazilian Football Confederation for picking Moreton Bay as their training ground. The arrangement is a testament that the Burpengary sports facility is of world-class standard.
It comes as Council has invested $103 million in local sports infrastructure that will help deliver more centres of excellence, especially in football.
The Cararinhas are due to face France, another sports heavyweight, during the Women’s World Cup in Brisbane on the 28th of July 2023. Tickets are already on sale online until March 2023.
The Bruce Highway Western Alternative Stage 2 project has been confirmed and property owners in affected areas are concerned over the potential resumption of at least 85 homes. Information sessions have been scheduled to cover the Morayfield, Upper Caboolture, and Narangba communities.
The Department of Transport and Main Roads announced that the Bruce Highway Western Alternative Stage 2 includes 16 kilometres between Moorina and Narangba, connecting the communities of Pine Valley, Morayfield South, Burpengary, and Narangba. In its entirety, however, the transport corridor will span 60 kilometres from the North Brisbane Area to Beerburrum.
“We expect more than 656,000 people to move to the Moreton Bay region by 2041,” Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said.
“This western alternative to the Bruce Highway will be essential in supporting growth and to prevent gridlock between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
Bruce Highway Western Alternative Preferred Alignment Photo Credit: TMR
“Planning ahead allows us to give certainty to local residents, and ensure we are delivering something that meets the needs of the community in the long term.
The gazettal of Stage 2 is set to start in 2023 and locals are encouraged to give their feedback on the preferred alignment online until the 12th of February 2023. Stage 1, spanning eight kilometres from Moodlu to Moorina, was already confirmed in late 2021.
Information sessions will also take place at three venues:
Morayfield Community Hall, Tuesday 29 November
Upper Caboolture Farmers Assembly Hall, Monday 5 December
Narangba Community Centre (Main Hall), Tuesday 13 December
However, reports cited that about 85 residents recently received letters from Mr Bailey’s office to let them know that their property might be resumed once the road work on Stage 2 starts.
One local Narangba said that whilst she did not get any letter compared to her neighbours, her house will still be close to the construction site of a future busy highway. The resident does not believe she could easily sell her property because of this.
Photo Credit: TMR
Photo Credit: TMR
“This was so underhanded no community consultation at all,” Narangba resident Marina Larsen shared at the Narangba & Surrounding Landowners Support Group, adding that the expanded road works will go straight to her house. “We received a brochure in the mail stating that it was coming here but they had not decided where. Now they have decided! Absolutely disgusting great Australian dream crushed.”
“I think it is incredibly unfair now for the affected landholders to have far less options to debate the route as it has progressed to a preferred single route,” another resident, Paul Gentle, wrote.
“As this new road will drastically change our area and degrade the peaceful rural lifestyle that we have all moved here for, will potentially significantly affect property valuations as the quite rural appeal will now no longer be a selling point.
“I would like to raise the point that the zoning should be changed so people who are not directly affected and compensated by the change to the area may be able to subdivide so they are able to raise sufficient funds to be able to relocate to rebuild what they will be loosing in another location.”
TMR, however, said that resumption has not formally started and the process could take years.
“I acknowledge this is a difficult time for those directly impacted,” Mr Bailey said.
“Moreton Bay is one of the fastest growing regions in Australia and we need to plan for that population growth.
“We all want to spend less time in traffic and this road project is an important part of ensuring that residents have good access to community infrastructure and jobs.
“We are already accepting early submissions and feedback on the next stages, and I recommend locals register for email updates on the project and take every opportunity to have their say.”
The fitness facility from Eildon Capital Group is expected to join established businesses that have opened and will also soon open in the new Moreton Bay shopping centre, such as Coles, Bunnings, Chemist Warehouse, PetStock and KFC. The $80-million Sungate Business Park had its grand opening on the 18th of November 2022.
Per DA/2022/4505, the gym will operate 24/7 to offer flexibility for its members and will include facilities like weights, circuit training, cardio functional training, hydrotherapy, massage rooms, total body fitness assessment rooms, as well as change and lockers rooms.
The DA also indicated that the location is part of the SunGATE Masterplan/Caboolture Shire Plan that has received preliminary approval. The gym’s construction will not impact the landscape of the approved precincts.
As a 24/7 facility, an acoustic assessment has been done to ascertain that the gym will have proper noise mitigation measures so as not to disturb surrounding residential areas. The developers also underscored that there is an economic need for a new gym in the area to promote healthy living options for the locals.
“Over the next decade the population of the catchment is expected to grow by nearly 12,000 people, resulting in demand for an additional three gyms in this area,” the DA cited. “As such, with an increasing undersupply there is considered strong demand for a gym on the subject site.”
Moreton Bay Regional Council is still assessing the DA, subject to public notification.
Bp has launched its electric vehicle charging brand ‘bp pulse’ in Australia at Brighton East in Melbourne, two other sites in Caboolture and Victoria are also now open to the public.
Bp global CEO Bernard Looney officially opened the new ‘bp pulse’ fast charge points at bp Bayside at Brighton East in Melbourne which served as its launching site. Sites at Diamond Creek in Victoria and Caboolture are also now online.
“It’s brilliant to get bp pulse underway in Australia, delivering a high-speed, high-quality charging experience to help accelerate the transition to electric vehicles,” Mr Looney said.
Australia’s ambition is to be a renewable energy superpower and this is just one of the ways we are backing the country that has backed bp for more than a century.”
The launch of bp pulse is just part of bp’s plans to install 600 charge points across the country and 100,000 EV chargers globally. The initial rollout will have these charging stations installed at key metropolitan and regional bp retail locations along Australia’s east coast. The locations will likewise offer bp’s outstanding food and beverage range.
Bp electric vehicle charging stations in Melbourne, Caboolture and Victoria now online | Photo credit: bp pulse / bp.com
“We want to provide our customers with a fantastic experience and meet their needs, irrespective of their choice of mobility,” Frédéric Baudry, president, bp Australia and SVP fuels & low carbon solutions, Asia Pacific, said
“We will be on the journey with them through this decade and beyond with growing numbers of fast, reliable chargers at convenient locations with great retail options, whether they want to eat, drink or shop.”
Bp partnered with Brisbane-based manufacturer Tritium who will supply the chargers as part of a multi-year contract to deliver for bp’s UK, Australian and New Zealand markets. Each Tritium charger has two connectors and can charge two vehicles at a time with each charger offering both CHAdeMO and CCS plugs and charging at a rate of up to 75kW.
The company plans to connect the new and existing chargers to high-power grid connections in 2023, enabling the installations to have charging speeds of up to 150kW. The electrification of mobility is part of bp’s commitment to becoming a net zero company by 2050 and in support of broader measures to reach net zero including a 43 per cent emissions reduction by 2030.
Get into the festive mood with Caboolture Christmas Carols at Centenary Lakes Park, the first of four signature Christmas carol events around the region, and get a headstart on this season of joy and merry-making.
Taking place at Centenary Lakes Park on the 27th of November 2022, the Caboolture Christmas Carols will feature twilight markets and food trucks, so visitors can get a head start on their Christmas shopping. Amid beautiful festoons and bright festival lights, shoppers get to browse through hundreds of gift items on offer including local crafts, jewellery, handmade goodies, and toys. And there will be plenty of food around to keep the energy going throughout the event.
Other activities in this 4-hour event include SkyDiving Santa who will be making his grand entry into the site at approximately 5 pm. Giant Snow Globes will likewise be there to provide the perfect backdrop for all your Instagrammable Christmas moments at just $10 per group.
Santa’s Village is returning too! Now, you’ll have another opportunity to meet Santa and snap up memorable photos with him. There will also be Christmas-themed roving entertainment, kids workshops, free face-painting and more!
Oh, and don’t miss the Ausbuild Main Stage. Sing along and feel the Christmas spirit as a stellar line-up of local artists and community groups perform all your favourite Christmas carols!
Programme:
4:05 pm – Forever Dance Academy 4:25 pm – Rockabellas 4:40 pm – Workshop Wonders – pre-Santa arrival show 4:55 pm – Santa’s arrival on the main stage 5:10 pm – Chrystal Lee School of Dance 5:30 pm – Caboolture Community Choir 6:10 pm – Pacific Belles 6:50 pm – Citipointe Church 7:55 pm – Santa’s Farewell – we wish you a merry Christmas
Caboolture BMX Club Vice President Shaun Batty believes that the incident happened between 7 pm (17 October) and 3.45 pm (18 October 2022) considering that one of the club’s coaches was at the premises until 7 pm and returned the next day at around 4 pm.
It was then that they found out that the locked storage was broken into. The storage facility is located at the end of their existing storage area and was built following the floods. They kept the bikes and whipper snippers at the said storage.
The thieves, they said, tried to break into other facilities at the complex but only managed to get into the storage shed, where no cameras are currently installed, using a wrench. Stolen were six BMX bikes (two black DKs – one micro and one pro –, a red Redline mini, a white Redline mini, a blue expert (undetermined brand) and a black and green DK mini wheeler) worth about $4,000 and two whipper snippers which are valued at $2,000.
The bikes were for use of kids who want to learn how to ride but cannot afford to buy an expensive racing bike. The club only has a limited number of these loan bikes, so the break-in incident will definitely impact their ability to loan a training bike.
Caboolture BMX Club Vice President Shaun Batty said that stealing from kids and from a not-for-profit organisation is “unacceptable.” Although he is hopeful that the offenders will eventually hand the stolen bikes and whipper snippers back to the club or the local police station.
The club has since purchased security cameras for the storage facility.
Prepare for another fun and scary night for all! The Caboolture Historical Village lets out all the skeletons in the closet with the return of more “Ghoulies and Ghosties” for Halloween.
The annual event will be back on Monday, 31 October 2022, and will run from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at a gated site. Whilst ghosts, ghoulies, and scary monsters will abound, the children will definitely be safe around the grounds of the Caboolture Historical Village.
As with the previous “Ghosts and Ghoulies” Halloween event, the children may expect to walk through the village with some surprises along the way. The site will be decorated especially for the occasion as an alternative to trick-or-treating on the streets. Dark Labyrinths has prepared the venue for the awesome displays.
The Caboolture Historical Village is set in a sprawling land, serving as a living history museum for artefacts and over 70 preserved pioneer buildings, such as the Queensland Prison’s Museum, the old Caboolture Hospital, the old Caboolture Railway Station, and general stores that depict the lives of the locals decades ago.
Established by the Caboolture Shire Council Chambers in the late 1950s, the site is a popular destination for both locals and tourists who want to learn more about the history of Moreton Bay Region.
A Morayfield woman, whose parents dreamt of one day winning big bucks before they passed away, feels as though her recent $733-k windfall was a blessing from heaven.
The unnamed woman could not believe her lucky stars when she found out that she bagged one of the winning entries of a recent draw, taking home the division one prize on Saturday, 1 October 2022.
She said that winning felt like a dream so she had to check her ticket many times to believe it was true.
“I also sent a photo of the winning ticket to my husband and son to double check. It’s crazy!” the Morayfield woman said.
“This will really take the pressure off everything. I feel as though my beloved late parents are looking down on me this morning,” she added, after getting the call to confirm her windfall. “They always dreamt of winning big one day in Lotto. They did this for me.”
The Morayfield winner purchased her ticket at the Nextra Morayfield Plaza News inside the Morayfield Shopping Centre and has been making plans to travel around the country once she buys a caravan.
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She’s also going to use her prize to do some home renovations.
“Most importantly, we will help our family that means the most to us — our children and their partners,” the lucky woman said.
For the 2022 financial year, the Saturday Gold Lotto has been won by 196 winners across the country. Division one has a total of 324 winners, collectively taking home more than $461.69 million.
Did you know that the anticipated opening of the new Bunnings Caboolture warehouse in early 2023 is expected to create around 100 jobs for local residents?
Works are currently underway for the new building, which will span 13,000 sqm and will be developed in two stages. The first stage covers the main warehouse of Bunnings Caboolture and the second one, for the extension, includes the nursery area, timber trade area, entrance, and landscaping.
The $32-million warehouse, located on the corner of Bruce Highway and Pumicestone Road, received its approval from Moreton Bay Regional Council in 2021. Eildon Funds Management lodged its plans back in June 2020.
Photo credit: Moreton Bay Regional Council
The retail centre is expected not just to provide greater convenience to local residents living in Caboolture and surrounding suburbs, but also complement existing stores in the area.
It will anchor the Big Fish Business Park, previously known as the Sungate Business Park, where a service station was built in 2018 and a fast food chain opened by 2020. Both new developments also created hundreds of jobs for locals throughout construction and on the opening.
Some of the remaining parts of Big Fish go-kart track and dam were removed to facilitate the development.
Meanwhile, Bunnings Caboolture will have a total of 407 car parking spaces, which includes 10 spaces for accessible parking, 12 trailer bays, two truck bays and seven trolley bays.
The new warehouse, which is going to be slightly bigger than the one in Morayfield, was supposed to open in late 2022, but construction has been delayed due to the weather and the Covid-19 pandemic.
