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INDUSTRY • FEATURE

10 Florence Street 13 The Chambers

to open
upgrade
Cairns Regional Council has allocated The local, iconic building that housed
$15 million over two years to a revamp the old National Bank of Australasia
of Florence Street. The plans involve was given new life in 2018, with a
an arbour-lined walkway connecting wine bar, restaurant and café opening
CPAC and the Munro Martin Parklands up to complete The Chambers
to the Esplanade. Detailed designs are establishment.
expected at the beginning of this year.
14 Hemingway’s Brewery 18 Cape Tribulation movie

films in Douglas region
Cairns to open
Hemingway’s opened its Cairns The filming of heist movie Cape
brew-pub in June, unveiling a 19 Tribulation was delayed, with writer
metre-long bar and 20 taps to serve up Stephen Curry re-working the script
Hemingway’s brewed beers as well as in 2018. The team is now eyeing
guest beers and ciders. It’s now also filming windows in either May-June
started brewery tours at the heritage or October-November 2019. A Tokyo
listed shed 2 wharf site. television crew did, however, make use
of the spectacular locations, filming
the show, “Let’s Have a World Heritage
15 Expansion of Cairns Wedding”, around Port Douglas and
11 Work on the expansion of the Cairns Oak Beach, which was broadcast in
Convention Centre
Japan in January (2019).
Convention Centre still hasn’t begun,
Cairns chosen as nation’s real with the State Government delaying Building to begin on
estate investment hot spot construction until May 2019, to allow 19 COUCH Wellness Centre
the work to be completed without
A decade-long weak streak wasn’t The first sod was turned on the
exactly broken in the Cairns real estate interruptions from already-booked wellness centre in July, 2018.
market but there were some positive events such as the Cairns Taipans NBL
signs. While sales were slow, the season. Construction is now nearing
completion and the building is
median value of houses rose by 1.4% expected to be open by April. The
cent and the value of inner city units $3 million Manoora facility will
climbed by between 4% and 5.6%.
include allied health services such
as psychology and occupational
12 Botanica sales therapy and house a library, cafe and
dining area, children’s playground and
to start
The $200 million Botanica therapy pool.
development at Caravonica changed
market direction in 2018, announcing Trinity Inlet dredging
it will now be a combination of 16
luxury residential apartments and a to start?
retirement resort for the over 50s. The Cairns Shipping Development
To allow for the re-design, the main project got both State and Federal
drawcard – a 2.2ha mega-lagoon - Government approval in 2018. Dredging
has been scaled back to about half a of Trinity Inlet will start this May, with
hectare. the entire project to take 12 months to
complete.

17 Hann 20 Export facility at
Highway
Cairns Airport
Plenty of work was done on the Details on this remain scarce, however
Hann Highway upgrade in 2018. The Aircraft Turnaround Engineering
entire project, costing $50 million, is (ATE), based at Cairns Airport, has
scheduled to be completed by mid- been promised $1.25 million in federal
2020, weather permitting. During that funding to export greater volumes of
time, sealing work will be done on fresh produce through the airport. An
the remaining 18 kilometres of a 100.7 application has gone before the Cairns
kilometre stretch of the road between Regional Council to create a long-term
The Lynd and Hughenden. lease for the freight centre.

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