Topic - Developments

Bolton Clarke files DA for two-tower retirement living and aged care development on the Gold Coast

Oct 29 2019 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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As we reported here, Australia’s largest Not For Profit retirement living and aged care provider negotiated for a parcel of land in the $550 million master-planned Queen Street Village master planned residential precinct in Southport in January this year.

The vertical development will see 146 two and three-bedroom independent living units, 40 assisted living apartments and a 72-bed residential aged care facility built on the former Gold Coast Hospital site.

Residents will also have access to the Village precinct, which will include a cinema, IGA, pharmacy, medical centre, pathology and allied health services, a Mercure Hotel and a childcare centre.

Work on the two-year build is expected to start in late 2020.

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