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TROPIC • CONSTRUCTION

What’s next? JUST COMMENCED

1. Smithfield Bypass 5. Cairns Central upgrade
SPECIAL REPORT A single lane road linking the A Myer relocation and new
Tropic rounds up a list of McGregor Road roundabout at Woolworths in the shopping mall’s
construction projects in Cairns. Smithfield with the Caravonica first major redevelopment in 20 years.
intersection to bypass the
Words Renee Cluff Smithfield roundabout. Investment: $60 million
Completion date: Late 2020
Crystalbrook Collection’s Bailey and Investment: $152 million
Flynn hotels are progressing at an Completion date: Late 2020 Centre of Contemporary
impressive rate, with openings expected 6. Arts facelift
in October and early 2020 respectively. 2. Cairns Shipping Development Redesign of façade and entry at
The sight of so many cranes across Dredging of Trinity Inlet to allow the Abbott Street premises as well
our skyline in recent times has been a vessels over 300m in length to enter as new office and studio spaces,
beacon of confidence during a period Cairns Port, establishment of a new a theatre upgrade and enhanced
of flat residential housing construction shipping swing basin plus wharf gallery spaces.
and softening tourism numbers. construction works. Investment: $5 million
But concerns are emerging about a Investment: $127 million Completion date: Late 2019
potential jobs cliff once tradies and Completion date: Early 2020
sub-contractors employed by Prime Kubirri Aged Care Centre
Construction down their tools at 3. Warrina Innisfail 7. 42 bed aged care centre at Mossman
Crystalbrook’s CBD sites. What: 64-bed high care nursing home being built by the Salvation Army.
But as this special Tropic report shows, in Innisfail. Investment: $10.7 million
there are still plenty of projects to keep Investment: $18 million Completion date: Late 2020.
construction momentum and optimism Completion date: Mid 2020.
alive as the Crystalbrook Collection Atherton Hospital
hotel jobs wind down. To really get the 4. JCU Cairns Innovation Centre 8.
economy firing, we also need other Three storey education facility at redevelopment
developments currently in limbo to get James Cook University’s Smithfield Replacement of 100-year-old
off the ground, from Nova City to State Campus designed to enhance facility including the emergency
Government infrastructure projects. innovation and scientific activities. department, and operating theatres.
Investment: $30 million Investment: $70 million
Completion date: July 2020 Completion date: Mid 2020
STARTING SOON

9. Cairns Regional Council’s
capital works program 12. Cairns South Health Facility 14. Wangetti Trail
The 2019 Council budget featured Community health facility at 94 km pedestrian and cycling trail
significant spending on roads, Edmonton, which will also act as a from Palm Cove to Port Douglas.
bridges, CBD upgrades, water and back-up to Cairns Hospital during Construction start: September 2019
waste infrastructure, and a range of cyclones or floods. Investment: $36 million
community, sport, cultural and tourism Construction start: Late 2019
projects. Investment: $25 million 15. Captain Cook Highway
Construction start: 2019-20 financial year upgrade
Investment: $164.7 million 13. Cairns Convention Centre Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch secured
a “congestion busting” upgrade of the
10. Botanica Lifestyle Resort upgrade Captain Cook Highway as part of the
196-home over 50s lifestyle resort at Expansion and refurbishment of the Federal Government’s 2019 Budget.
Caravonica existing centre Construction start: 2020
Construction start: Late 2019/Early 2020 Construction start: May 2020 Investment: $287.2 million
Investment: $90 million Investment: $176 million

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