Topic - Developments

RetireAustralia relocating (literally) Brisbane’s historic Fancutts home to make way for retirement village

Mar 19 2019 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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The home is the last of five houses making up the iconic Fancutts Tennis Centre, which will be transformed into an eight-storey village – Fancutts Retirement Living.

As we reported here, the new site will feature 182 independent living apartments and 35 care apartments and will be RetireAustralia’s first apartment-style development in QLD.

The original Fancutts home is expected to be ‘trucked’ to a sports field in Corinda – 25 minutes south of Brisbane CBD – in the coming weeks.

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