Poplars Business Park
This ground-breaking business park is redefining innovation in Queanbeyan and Canberra. Poplars will provide organisations and businesses with the perfect environment to pioneer the next great ideas.
With the capacity to build the perfect space to support new technology and research, in a highly considered setting, this will address the region’s need for a new home for performance cultures and creative ventures.
The 30ha site provides a location for local, national and international businesses to establish a headquarters in close proximity to the nation’s decision makers. The development will also be complimented by a 10ha Retail and Services precinct.
Queanbeyan CBD Renewal
A transformational project is underway to revitalise the Queanbeyan CBD, adding to its attractiveness as a place to work, live and play.
The project is scheduled to run to the following timetable and is due for completion in 2025.
1. Smart City Pilot and River Walk | FY 18-19
- Smart lighting, sensing and Wifi: Crawford lifestyle precinct
- Smart parking:Crawford Street lifestyle precinct and Collett Street car park
- Low level pedestrian bridge
- Paved shared pathway, both sides, from low level bridge to pedestrian suspension bridge
2. Lowe Car Park | FY 19-20
- Offices and smart hub
- Mixed use redevelopment: commercial and residential (private)
- Smart public domain
- Smart parking
- Laneway connectors
3. Morisset car park | FY 20-21
- Multi-level smart car park, with some commercial
- Smart public domain
- Laneway connectors
4. Rutledge car park | FY 21-22
- Mixed use redevelopment, commercial and aged care residential
- Smart public domain
- Laneway connectors
5. Monaro St Corridor | FY 22-23
- Widening and refurbishment of footpaths
- Expansion of lighting, seating and plantings
- Reduction of median
- Addition of cycleway
- Modifying pedestrian refuges
- Refurbishment of pavement
- Re-phasing traffic controls
6. Crawford car park | FY 24-25
- Multi-level smart car park
QPRC Head Office
257 Crawford St will be redeveloped as part of the wider transformation project for the Queanbeyan CBD, providing a new head office for Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council and an injection of high-value commercial space.
The new five-level building will feature 7000m2 of office space, meeting rooms and a smart hub with co-working space. The hub will offer incubator space for new start-ups.
Ellerton Drive Extension
The 4.6km Ellerton Drive Extension will provide an alternate route around the Central Business District, connecting east and west Queanbeyan to the new southern population growth areas. The road runs from the current end point of Ellerton Drive, through to the intersection of Old Cooma Road and Edwin Land Parkway in Karabar.
The project is a joint initiative of QPRC and the NSW Roads and Maritime Services.
Project features:
- One lane in each direction with climbing lanes
- Bridge crossing over Queanbeyan River and Barracks Flat Drive
- Shared off-road cyclist and pedestrian pathway
- Provision of space for on-road cyclists
- Additional access points for Fairlane Estate
- Emergency egress for Greenleigh Estate at Lonergan Drive and the East Queanbeyan reservoir
- Stormwater drainage system, including pavement surface drainage
- Three fauna under-passes and three rope crossings
- Potential for a pedestrian undercrossing at Jumping Creek Estate
- Noise mitigation measures
- Edwin Land Parkway Intersection upgrade.
QBN CBD Master Plan renewal
Throughout the renewal process for the Queanbeyan CBD Master Plan, QPRC is seeking to deliver an activated environment that supports and promotes a strengthened identity for the CBD, with priorities including:
- An identifiable heart
- A dynamic retail offer
- A significant cultural/civic precinct
- Lifestyle elements that attract city living, while supporting entertainment and amenity
- A vibrant night time economy
- A quality public realm, to connect people with the built environment, streetscapes, parklands and the river
