Brisbane New World City – Brisbane Quarter

Four years after purchasing the state government’s former Supreme and District Court site for $63 million, developer Shayher Group is well on its way to delivering Brisbane’s first world-class integrated mixed-use precinct, as construction of three city-shaping high-rise hotel, office and apartment towers gathers pace.

The centrepiece of the Brisbane Quarter development along the Brisbane River is W Brisbane, with the five-star luxury lifestyle hotel chain, W Hotels, choosing Brisbane as the perfect location to re-enter the Australian market. Construction of three towers (hotel, commercial, residential) set atop a podium of three storeys with basement car parking, was awarded to global contractor, Multiplex.

Australia’s first purpose-built W Hotel will be the first five-star branded hotel to open in the city in two decades, with work now progressed past the two-storey retail, ballroom level and pool deck to the sixth storey. W Brisbane will be the first of the three towers to be completed around March next year.

The 42-storey commercial tower is up to Level 6, with completion expected in late 2019. The tower offers 63,000sqm of prime commercial space, with Queensland’s biggest superannuation fund, Q Super, already signing with the Shayher Group to take up 15,000sqm as its head office.

The residential component of the development, which will incorporate a riverside retail and dining precinct as well as 467 apartments across 82 storeys, is still in the design phase.

Shayher director John Lin commented, “Brisbane is rapidly moving ahead with a new era of growth and we see our Brisbane Quarter project as one of the milestone CBD developments that will shape the city’s future.”

More information is available on the Brisbane development website.

Source: The Urban Developer

Originally published: 6th September 2016
Updated: 10th November 2017