2016-08-09 S&O Agenda Item 8, Attachment 1 - CCIQ Noosa Convention and Cultural Centre Initiative Pre-feasibility Study

    CCIQ Noosa #3 Noosa Convention & Cultural Centre Initiative
    Pre-feasibility Study                                                                                                          April 2016

                                      Hall29                                                        Services and Volunteer
                          1.3.2.      Noosa Civic Stage 2, as part of                               Management to cover both
                                      any negotiation with QIC30                                    buildings
                            1.4.      In conjunction with an           1.4.14.                      Superior equipment loading
                                      expanded Noosa Arts Theatre31                                 facilities, including a Vehicle
                                      (NAT as the Resident Theatre                                  Turntable. Direct vehicle access
                                      Company with Noosa Long                                       to the main stage.
                                      Weekend Festival and having      1.4.15.                      Walking distance to public
                                      Resident Arts and                                             transport
                                      Entertainment Event status A 1.4.16.                          Ample parking available but not
                                      recent alternative suggestion,                                underneath the centre.
                                      first put to the Team in
                                      December 2015, is for the
                                      Noosa Regional Gallery to be re-
                                      located and upgraded - housed
                                      on the ground floor32
                          1.4.1.      Both Tourism Noosa and The
                                      Noosa Wedding Organisation
                                      have requested the inclusion of
                                      a space which could be re-
                                      purposed as required as a wet-
                                      weather Wedding Chapel,
                                      capacity approx. 150.


                         Expanded opportunities are likely across:
Local Business              a. Construction Phase
& Employment                    Building services for construction
                                Specialist trades and services for fitout
    Economic                    Supply of specialist equipment across the needs of each centre and
        Boost                     ancillary areas
                                Upgrade, refit and new construction of commercial premises in the
                                  Junction towards centres opening and attracting new trade
                                New construction of accommodation properties to meet increased
                                  accommodation needs – high class inventory
                            b. Operation Phase
                                Wider range of new job prospects in the Junction commercial precinct
                                New businesses to occupy current and new commercial space
                                Opportunity for a return to Noosa style creative designs and products
                                  under the planned new Noosa branding initiative
                                New jobs across the functional areas of all facilities in the new centres –
                                  F&B, ushers, technical, front-of-house, back-of-house, management and
                                  other specialists
                                New opportunities for local/regional subject matter experts as keynote

    29
       Impractical due to 18 year sports lease and lack of any performance technical infrastructure which has been removed
    30
      Location is incompatible with desired integration as part of conference facility to sustain economic viability unless both are relocated to
    this site
    31
       Noosa Arts Theatre seen as a preferred ‘user’ of a new theatre complex and meets their aim of a minimum 500 seat performance space
    within five years
    32
       Alternatively, the gallery space could be designed as the functional Performing Centre foyer – similar to arts spaces in Europe and USA
    where the synergy between art forms flow across and through each others physical spaces.




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