G’day GC, welcome again to a different Thursday version, it’s November 20.
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One Massive Factor: Builders eye off 4.7ha Nerang Caravan Park website, set to be redeveloped
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Native GC teenagers named in: 2026 Queensland Below 16 Indoor Hockey Groups
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A brand new Gold Coast: Park is opening tomorrow morning
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Trending: To folks who *thought* Motorised Bikes / eScooters had been a *good* thought..
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Across the internet: One other deadly SEQ eBike crash, the 8,888sqm Tallai mansion set to interrupt data, Australia’s first-ever gold coin auctioned, the strongest beer on this planet launched and heaps extra
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By Marshall Corridor
What’s Occurring: Builders are eyeing off a big website on the Nerang River that’s at present residence to a neighborhood caravan park.
Why It Issues: As land that is ready to be developed turns into scarce throughout the Gold Coast, significantly close to established communities, this riverfront website provides a uncommon alternative for city infill, tapping into the town’s urgent want for brand spanking new housing.
By the Numbers
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4.7 hectares: Is the whole measurement of the event website.
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$1 million: Annual income reportedly generated by the caravan park.
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23 metres: Most permitted constructing top underneath native overlays.
Native Influence: With the 4+ hectare Nerang Caravan Park website alongside the river now available on the market through an expression of curiosity marketing campaign being run by CBRE (Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis, an American industrial actual property companies and funding agency), it’s earmarked for medium-density residential redevelopment.
Topic to approvals, the location might be redeveloped to incorporate a mixture of low-rise residences, small-lot housing and townhouses.
What The Folks Say:
CBRE has stated,
“The event website is nicely positioned for a variety of residential improvement outcomes, supported by local people amenities and industrial makes use of,’’
“A constructing top overlay permits improvement as much as 23 metres, enabling a variety of medium-rise residential outcomes.”
What To Look For Subsequent: With the Gold Coast’s inhabitants surging, the scarcity of development-ready land on the Gold Coast is among the primary sights of the Nerang property that can doubtless result in a fast sale.
What’s Occurring: SkyRidge’s inexperienced coronary heart, the expansive Lorikeet Park, is formally opening to the general public from 9 am this Saturday.
Why It Issues: Spanning greater than two hectares in Worongary, the brand new park guarantees recent air, health, and enjoyable for households, fur-babies, and health fanatics alike.
By the Numbers
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2+ hectares of parkland will open to the general public from Saturday at 9 am
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There can be a 500-person amphitheatre capability
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And, the flexibility to tackle the 180-step stair climb for the courageous and breathless
Native Influence: That includes distinctive play areas by no means earlier than seen in Queensland, an amphitheatre, gorgeous coastal views, shaded BBQs, water play zones, and canine runs, it’ll be a giant win for locals craving high quality public house on this a part of the coast.
What To Look For Subsequent: The Lorikeet Park public opening kicks off from 9 am on Saturday.
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Tallai mansion set to interrupt data
A former Gold Coast home of the yr that has been reworked by a former-AFL footballer turned businessman seems set to interrupt Gold Coast property worth data.
Now merely known as “The Property”, the 8888sqm property comes with a..
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The world’s strongest beer simply dropped with: Samuel Adams’ 2025 Utopias, a $240 bottle so boozy it’s banned in 15 American states resulting from its 30% ABV
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Australia’s first gold coin, the 1852 Adelaide pound, is: Going to public sale
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Sky Spots tried to launch a female-focused: TikTok channel, Halo, which slapped pink sparkly letters on movies, talked about “sizzling lady walks,” matcha, and posted transport memes, and lasted simply three days earlier than being killed off
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One other deadly eScooter crash has taken: Place in South East Queensland, this time tragically simply up the street from the Gold Coast in Redland Metropolis
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Porsche has topped its new: Cayenne Electrical because the ‘strongest manufacturing Porsche of all time’
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TikTok is rolling out a brand new characteristic that allows you to: Positive-tune your For You feed, deciding precisely how a lot AI-generated content material you wish to see.
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The Gold Coast SUNS executed a collection of: Trades involving draft picks at final evening’s Telstra AFL Draft.
This week: Roll out the pink carpet and verify the floodlights, the Metropolis of Gold Coast is scouting a Supervisor of Main Venues to run its stadiums and aquatic empire from Bundall.
Should you stay for sell-out crowds, easy operations and big authorities budgets, this exec gig pays the large biccies at $200,000.00k plus automobile allowance and tremendous.
Your mission: hold venues buzzing, secure and firmly within the black.
🚗 IEEE ITSC 2025, Worldwide Convention on Clever Transportation Methods – 18–21 Nov 2025, 4 days of autonomous automobiles, sensible mobility and site visitors AI at The Star.
🚦 ITS Australia Summit 2025 – 19–21 Nov 2025, occasions fluctuate (full-day program)
One other nationwide flagship clever transport summit, this time on the Gold Coast Conference & Exhibition, Centre options keynotes, tech showcases, stay demos, a careers expo and sector networking. Passes and program through the summit web page.
🌱 Gold Coast Colleges Summit – 21 Nov 2025, 9:00 am–3:00 pm. Round 100 high-school college students collect at Southport Group Centre for AYCC’s one-day climate-justice and sustainability summit with youth-led workshops and visitor audio system. Bookings through the summit registration web page.
🎵 Life On Vinyl, 22–23 Nov 2025, periods from 2:00 pm & 6:30 pm. Tahnee and The Tree Home’s 2025 end-of-year stage manufacturing hits The Star Gold Coast, Broadbeach, with a big-stage showcase of native younger performers throughout the weekend. Session occasions and tickets through Ticketek.























