INVEST TO MODERNISE SPORT AND EVENT ACCESSIBILITY IN QUEENSLAND’S SPORTING HEARTLAND
A national-standard sport and entertainment precinct anchored around a boutique rectangular stadium will revolutionise access to sporting and entertainment content in Queensland’s sporting heartland. The North Ipswich Sport and Entertainment Precinct will be an economic and lifestyle asset for Ipswich’s future half a million residents and address an acute social infrastructure shortfall. This project will increase Ipswich’s ability to host 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games events and training.
North Ipswich Sport and Entertainment Precinct Factsheet (PDF, 459.0 KB)
COMMITMENT REQUIRED
$2.5 million is required to progress the North Ipswich Sport and Entertainment Precinct to shovel-ready status by further developing the preferred options in a Detailed Business Case.
Council believes a staged approach may deliver community outcomes in the short term.
About the North Ipswich Sport and Entertainment Precinct
Benefits to Ipswich:
Benefits to South East Queensland:
If we do nothing:
Council delivered the Strategic Business Case for this project in 2019 with the support of the Queensland Government. In 2020, council solely delivered the Options Analysis for this project which identified two options for development, including a 12,000 capacity stadium and a 20,000 capacity stadium.
This project achieved the following milestones:
Current steps are:
Future milestones are: