Graya wins James St bid
The expansion of the James Street precinct continues apace with developer Graya trumpeting the acquisition of the prime retail site currently occupied by the Bed Bath N’ Table store.
Graya director Rob Gray said the 943 sqm James Street parcel was the ‘last piece of the puzzle’ ripe for redevelopment along the strip.
“Graya plans on delivering a world-class building that will enhance the James Street lifestyle hub with high-end food and beverage along with a luxury retail offering and office space,” he said, describing James Street as “among the most sought-after real estate in Australia.”
The company reportedly beat off a number of local high-profile investors in a bidding war which saw it pay $20 million for the site which last sold in 2014 for $2.14 million, a nice little pay day for the Gold Coast investor who owned it.
Conry’s Olympic claims
Some interesting comments made by Stephen Conry, chairman of the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority regarding the decision to site a new stadium in Victoria Park.
Dismissing criticism of the move, he said Victoria Park was not widely known in Brisbane and less widely used. “Many people do not even know where Victoria Park is,” he said. Just how he came by this knowledge had not been made clear.
Never mind because according to Conry, “a very clear majority are supportive, happy and excited.”
Not for the first time in my life I find myself in a minority although if there’s been any dancing in the streets I must have missed it.
Thanks to Mr Conry, if you’ve been having trouble sleeping lately now you know the reason. It’s all that happiness and excitement bubbling away in your subconscious that’s causing it.
E-scooter crackdown
Good to see a police presence on the Riverwalk lately with officers pulling over e-scooter riders not wearing helmets.
There have been five e-scooter fatalities in the state this year, the highest number in the country with Queensland the only jurisdiction that allows children under 16 to ride e-scooters under adult supervision.
Dr Matthew Clanfield, who has worked in a Queensland paediatric ICU department, has said that every two to three days a child injured on an e-scooter would come through the emergency department with one in 10 sustaining potentially life-threatening injuries.
How many deaths do there have to be, you might wonder, before the laws are changed.
Cost of living at Liv
Those aspiring to enjoy the local lifestyle at bargain rates by moving into Mirvac’s build-to-rent Liv Anura development in Skyring Terrace in Newstead, otherwise known as Pentridge due to an architectural style which could be most kindly described as minimalist, are finding that inner city life does not come cheaply.
The developer, which will manage and own the building, is offering unfurnished one bedroom apartments with a multipurpose room starting from $925 a week and two bedroom units minus an MPR from $990 or from $1150 with furnishings.
Compensation…
This column is now, for a limited time, offering for sale personalised number plates to all those drivers who feel the need to compensate for their undersized reproductive organs by roaring through the streets and rattling the windows with their crackling exhausts in expensive cars, the ones they’d like us to think they own but that we know they are only leasing.
Among those available are IDIOT, MORON, IQ001, FWIT, BRAINDEAD and CLOWN. Get yours now. Supplies are limited.
Seeking sun
If winter be upon us and then it is time for your correspondent to take his temperature sensitive, Queensland-born-and-bred bones to warmer climes, good news for those people who wish I’d go away and stay away.
Sunny Greece and the Mediterranean beckon but I’ll be back!
