Advanced wellness living community to be built on flood plain
LOS ANGELES: An advanced wellness living community is now set to be built on a floods plain.
Developer JLF Corporation and Orient Central Development Corporation (OCDC) last week lodged plans with the Gold Coast City Council for the 25ha site on Clear Island Waters’ Gooding Drive, which would see at least five high-rise towers built.
Core Property has also been tapped as the delivery partner for the project.
The paddock is one of southeast Queensland’s most notorious floodplains and has repeatedly been the target of development, with the council previously approving a high-rise project on the land on the proviso that buildings had lifeboats.
However, JLF’s plans would see the paddock largely transformed into a lake with an island in the centre.
Mr Tate said he was yet to closely analyse the plans but was open to finding solutions which would allow for development on floodplains.
“It’s not a new thing – look at Paradise Waters, Isle of Capri and the canal estates and they have done it well but if this one can handle the traffic coming into it then I’m happy to have a look at it,” he said.
“I think we will have other proposals like this going forward, and the biggest will be the cane fields in the north.
“I could see them introducing water elements up there and building on high ground and, you never know, maybe they’ll build marinas on the water too.”
JLF chief executive John Fitzgerald was unavailable for comment this week but previously said the development, to be known as Clear Island, would be significantly smaller than the previously proposal, which would have allowed for 1500 units.
He said it would focus heavily on wellness and “represents a significant evolution beyond traditional luxury residential development, combining wellness real estate, preventive healthcare, outdoor high performance living and longevity services into a single integrated lifestyle ecosystem”.
“Unlike many developments now incorporating token wellness amenities such as yoga rooms and saunas, Clear Island has been conceived as a fully integrated daily wellness and longevity ecosystem designed to support physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing,” he said.
Bulletin readers have had a mixed reaction to the proposed development, which JLF hope to begin building in 2027.
Khiara Dickson said she would be upset to see the famous cows removed.
“Those cows provide so much serotonin when I drive past, they are a wellness community on their own,” she said.
“Leave those babies alone.”
Andie Symonds also urged for the developers to retain the cows.
“Keep our cows,” she said.
“They are our wellness community – make our day every time we see them.”
OCDC have been the long-time owner of the site and were behind a previously proposal to redevelop the site which was approved by the council in 2017.