Queensland Premier Bligh has announced that the former Queensland University of Technology (QUT) campus at Carseldine will become a new Government Office Precinct.
Ms Bligh said the Queensland Growth Management Summit in March reinforced the need to decentralise government services to reduce pressure on the Brisbane CBD.
"This new precinct will move around 1000 government employees to the remodelled former QUT buildings by late 2012," the Premier said.
"The refurbishment of the existing campus buildings for office space will provide 13,000sqm of office space with the cost of conversion estimated at $50million."
The Premier said the site of the former QUT campus at Carseldine is state-owned land that has been vacant since late 2008.
"It's an ideal location to be used as part of the Government's decentralisation initiative," Ms Bligh said. "It is located 13km from the city within Brisbane's northern transport corridor and the 45 hectare site is easily accessible by rail, bus and car."
As part of the agreement with QUT the State Government will redesignate land within the university's Brisbane CBD Gardens Point campus as freehold land to assist the university's ongoing redevelopment of the campus.
Ms Bligh said the existing child care centre at Carseldine would be maintained and said the decentralisation initiative would be a catalyst for the new Carseldine Urban Village.
"The Urban Land Development Authority is expected to release a masterplan for the urban village for community consultation next month," she said.
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