Major Projects

• Hervey Bay Library & Admin Centre

  The backbone of the Hervey Bay city centre revitalisation will be a new $100m regional library building and Council administration centre, located on the corner of Main Street and Torquay Road in Pialba.
  
  This is a once in a generation opportunity to reshape the city centre by creating a community hub where people can come together to learn, to socialise and to benefit from centralised Council services. It will also include a Disaster Resilience Centre, where Council and government agencies can work together during disasters.

• Hervey Bay Revitalisation

  The Fraser Coast Regional Council, in partnership with the Australian Government, is building a better lifestyle for Hervey Bay, creating a revitalised world-class city centre and civic hub.
  
  Re-shaping Hervey Bay’s community and significantly enhancing the heart of town, the Hervey Bay City Centre Revitalisation will transform the region into a primary and popular destination, and cultural and creative precinct, with diverse food, dining, social and shopping experiences on offer.

• Fraser Coast Sports and Recreation Precinct

  The Fraser Coast Sports and Recreation Precinct, a major sporting precinct on land in Nikenbah is a multi-stage development across over 60 hectares of land which opened in February 2019. The precinct will provide sporting fields and playing surfaces catering to football (soccer), AFL, rugby league/union, hockey, netball, tennis, touch football and Oztag.
  
  The draft master plan, which was endorsed by Council on 22 February 2023, is the strategic vision for the future staged development of the Fraser Coast Sports and Recreation Precinct.

• Queensland Train Manufacturing Program

  The Queensland Train Manufacturing Program will build 65 new six-car passenger trains at a purpose-built manufacturing facility at Torbanlea, in the Maryborough region. Downer has been selected as the preferred applicant to deliver the program, which is the largest investment in new rolling stock in Queensland history.

• ESI Asia Pacific Pty Ltd

  A battery manufacturing factory being built in Maryborough will bring new jobs to the region. Built by Energy Storage Industries — Asia Pacific (ESI) the $70 million project promises to “produce low-cost, long-life, environmentally friendly batteries that allow large-scale energy storage” and is the first of its kind in Australia.

• Urangan Harbour – Marina Square

  A $60 million investment in Hervey Bay tourism infrastructure is set to change the face of Urangan Marina. The centrepiece of the Marina Square development is a 144-room, four-star hotel, the construction of which would see 210 jobs created: 175 during the build and 35 full-time roles in the long-term.

• Forest Wind

  Forest Wind is a major clean energy project proposal in Wide Bay, Queensland, that has the capacity to generate up to 1200MW of electricity.
  
  The $2 billion project proposes to install up to 226 turbines in state forest used as pine plantations between the towns of Gympie and Maryborough and has the potential to be one of the largest grid-connected wind farms in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Spotlight Retail Group

  Spotlight Retail Group is intending a $60m+ bulky goods retail centre in Hervey Bay. The new centre, which will cover 2ha of retail space on the almost 3ha block, will have two main entrances and 460 car spaces divided into 385 undercover and 75 open air spaces.

• Astro Aero

  An aircraft factory, which will produce up to 25 planes a year, is set to bring hundreds of jobs to the Fraser Coast. Astro Aero will build a high-tech aircraft manufacturing centre on a greenfield site at the Hervey Bay Airport.
  
  The $12 million project will be the first tenant at the new Avion Industrial Precinct, and is anticipated to create up to 200 long-term, high-skill jobs for the region.

Recently Completed

• Maryborough Forging & Manufacturing Facility

  Rheinmetall NIOA Munitions (RNM) is a joint venture between Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH (RWM) and NIOA. RNM has constructed and commissioned a greenfield munitions facility to forge and finish large calibre projectile shells for 155mm artillery munitions and metal parts for other munition-related products, such as mortar shell bodies and large calibre naval ammunition.
  
  The $60 million Maryborough plant is the most modern of its type in the world, with the manufacturing capability to perform high tonnage forging operations, precision machining, nosing, heat-treating, welding, phosphating and painting, as well as extensive quality control and assurance, including destructive and non-destructive testing.

• Hyne Timber Glue Laminated Timber Plant

  The new state-of-the-art glue laminated manufacturing plant in Maryborough incorporates the latest in automated glulam production technology and equipment. The 4000sqm facility is located on a 2.3 Ha site within a High Impact Industry Planning zone, and is co-located with Hyne’s current operations and dovetails into the existing production, allowing Hyne to provide more competitive products into the emerging large-scale residential and commercial markets.

• Hervey Bay Airport Redevelopment

  The Hervey Bay Airport underwent a two-stage redevelopment, including the
  improvement of all infrastructure for the main runway and taxiways and the construction of a specialised aviation and associated supply chain industry subdivision. Committed through the Hinkler Regional Deal, this project is funded through the Australian Government’s Building Better Regions Fund.
  
  The project ensures that Hervey Bay Airport now meets Australian design and safety standards for airports. This is a major achievement in securing the long term sustainability of this regional hub.