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Get Ready to Shop ‘Til You Drop at the Grand Opening of Vend Annerley

Photo credit: Facebook / VEND Market Place

Get ready for a grand celebration as VEND Annerley opens its doors one day before Easter!

The festivities are sure to be spectacular as they unveil their newest location. VEND has been a beloved retail destination on Brisbane’s northside since 2018, hosting a variety of events such as Christmas markets, plant sales, and even stalls catering to dog enthusiasts.

Get Ready to Shop ‘Til You Drop at the Grand Opening of Vend Annerley — Photo credit: Facebook / VEND Market Place

Vend’s expansion to Annerley marks an exciting new chapter for the company, and rest assured, their commitment to canine visitors remains unchanged.

The market will operate seven days a week, making it the perfect spot to peruse on a lazy Sunday or a quick shopping trip after work. With over 120 local businesses and creatives all under one roof, VEND Annerley is set to become a hub of activity for locals and visitors alike.

To celebrate its grand opening, VEND Annerley is hosting festivities from 8 am to 4 pm. And there is something for everyone!

An ice cream van will be there to keep you cool while you shop, and face painting for the kids.

But the fun doesn’t stop there! There will be prize giveaways throughout the day and Easter Bunny will make an appearance from 10 am-11 am, so make sure you don’t miss out.

VEND is renowned for featuring local vendors who specialize in everything from clothing and homewares to furniture, art, records, and vintage collectables. With over 120 local vendors, it is no surprise that VEND is a shopping destination of choice for many Brisbane locals.

Get Ready to Shop ‘Til You Drop at the Grand Opening of Vend in Annerley — *Photo credit: Facebook /* VEND Market Place

If you’re looking for a new shopping experience, VEND Annerley is the place to be. With its grand opening party set to be a hit, you’ll want to get in on the action early. So mark your calendars and join the VEND family on April 8th!

Published 6-April-2023

Vend Marketplace To Open Second Brisbane Location In Annerley

Annerley is about to score its own Vend Marketplace, after the popular indoor market, which first made its way to Virginia back in 2018, will expand with a second location, this time in Brisbane’s southside.

Read: Proposed VEND Market Place Annerley Gets Greenlight

The new Vend Marketplace will officially open on Saturday, 8 April 2023 on the corner of Brisbane Street and Ipswich Road, Annerley.

As with the northside venue, this one will be open all days of the week and will be home to over a hundred local businesses and creatives. The shops will range from ladies and kids fashion to indoor plants, dog accessories, records, vintage collectables, homewares, décor, furniture, art, body products.

Like the permanent indoor market in Virginia, it’s going to have an upper level which can be hired by locals for events and classes. Founders Amy Hinschen and Kyle Steele are hoping the community will make use of Vend Annerley’s second floor.

Pet parents will love the fact that this indoor market is a pet-friendly venue, so they can bring along their fur babies as they shop!

Beyond the shopping experience, the market will have its own cafe which will feature a large range of dishes for breakfast and lunch and delicious coffee using beans sourced from Locale Coffee Roasters. The cafe will have both indoor and outdoor seating and a playground.

In Virginia, the cafe is a licensed venue so o visitors can enjoy a wine or beer after a day of shopping. They also have juice, smoothies, and milkshakes aside from coffee.

Meanwhile, small businesses who want to have their own shop space at Vend Annerley may send their expressions of interest at info@vendmarketplace.com.au.

Read: The Beginnings of Collins Estate, the ‘Most Cheerful’ Address in Annerley

Vend Annerley’s retail marketplace will operate from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. whilst the cafe will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily. If you don’t want to miss the updates on this new permanent indoor market in Annerley, make sure to follow them on Instagram @vend_annerley.

Published 21-March-2023

Annerley’s Stephens Park Estate Turns 100 Years Old

Did you know that Stephens Park Estate near the Junction Park State School commemorated 100 years following its public auction as a residential precinct?

In January 2023, the areas covering the streets of Ipswich Road, Waldheim Street, Blacket Street (formerly Thomas Street), Stephens Street, Linville Lane, Military Close, Dudley Street East, View Street, Lewisham Street (formerly Creek Street), Ekibin Road (formerly Ekibin Street), Willis Street, Arnwood Place (formerly the Road to Greenslopes), Lambton Street (formerly Rose Street), Lothian Street (formerly Jane Street), Bower Street, Real Street and Annerley Road, went up for auction with 95 “beautiful breezy building blocks.”

Stephens Park Estate — Photo Credit: Suburb Maps/Facebook

Stephens Park — Photo Credit: Suburb Maps/Facebook

The estate was advertised in the newspaper as a “Parklike Residential area immediately surrounding the residences of “Messrs W. and T. Stephens” on Waldheim Street. The residence has been recognised as a local heritage site by Brisbane City Council in 2004.

Thomas Stephens emigrated to Sydney from Liverpool. After marrying Anne Connah, the pair set out to live in Brisbane where they raised 12 children. He became a successful Brisbane businessman, alderman and mayor of the city, who also served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

His eldest son, William, also tracked the same path and was regarded as “a real old-time southsider” who was born on Stanley Street.

“In my boyhood, the locality between the Clarence Corner and Fiveways was known as One Mile Swamp, there was little or no settlement at Woolloongabba — it was nearly all forest. There were two or three kilns out there, where they used to make bricks by hand. Bigholes were dug out for clay,” he told The Telegraph in 1923.

“The site of the Brisbane cricket ground was in lowly lying Government reserve. I can remember that Mr. ‘Paddy’ Perkins, when Minister for Lands, proposed to out up tho reserve into allotments and sell it. There was such an outcry against it, however, that the sale, although advertised was cancelled. The East Brisbane State school occupies part of the original reserve.”

William Stephens — Photo Credit: Wikipedia

Blockside & Ferguson Limited handled the auction and sale of the Stephens Park Estate under easy terms of: “£5 cash deposit, and £1 per month for every £50 of the purchase money or part thereof, interest 6 per cent on half-yearly balance, final payment in 36 months.”

After three days of the auction, Blockside & Ferguson reported a “very satisfactory” sale of 47 allotments. The rest of the properties were negotiated during private sales.

Published 12 March 2023

Goodlife Health Clubs Inks Long-Term Lease at YG Riverside Village

Photo credit: Consolidated Properties Group / consolidatedpropertiesgroup.com.au

One of Australia’s largest and most popular health clubs, Goodlife Health Clubs, joins the highly anticipated riverside hub at Yeerongpilly Green.

Goodlife Health Clubs has inked a long-term lease that will allow it to establish a brand-new, purpose-built 1,600 sqm space at YG Riverside Village. The health club will join anchor tenant Woolworths as the retail hub’s second major tenant.

Future clients will be able to take advantage of Goodlife Health Clubs’ popular offerings including Reform Pilates, Body Pump and Pace classes as well as its array of strength and conditioning equipment.

Fitness & Lifestyle Group Head of Property Ash Rowe described the deal with YG Riverside Village as an exciting development for the company.

“Goodlife Health Clubs is excited to join a vibrant community with our unique full-service health club offering,” he said.

“From Reform Pilates to group fitness classes, free weights and world-class equipment and facilities, the new club will perfectly complement the exciting YG Riverside Village retail hub.

“We are a destination business as well as being convenience driven so the safe and easy accessibility of the retail hub is perfect for us.

“Supporting our new and existing members in their health and fitness journey is our passion which makes Goodlife the ideal addition to the wellness precinct.”

Consolidated Properties Group National Manager for Retail Leasing, Rob Clifton, meanwhile, said that the partnership will provide another major attraction for the local area.

“Given the enhanced range of offering and increased footprint, we expect this new YG Riverside health club will attract a significant number of members,” he said.

YG Riverside Village is an 11,600sqm retail hub that is being developed at Yeerongpilly Green by Consolidated Properties Group and CVS Lane Capital Partners. Once completed, it will feature a modern-full line Woolworths supermarket, boutique offices, specialty retailers, a dining precinct, a major gym and wellness precinct plus a secure basement car parking.

Current confirmed tenants include a pharmacy, BWS, Jimmy Rod’s barber shop, Jessica James Hair, Lux Nail Bar & Co and Massage Inn. More tenants are expected to be announced in early 2023.

Published 5-March-2023

Yeronga State School Officially Opens New Administration And Learning Centre

Yeronga State School has officially opened its new $11 million state-of-the-art administration and learning centre, located at the heart of the school campus.

Read: Construction Starts for the New Yeronga Community Centre at the Old TAFE Site

The site, which was once home to an old dental clinic, has been transformed for the modern education facilities including nine new classrooms for Years 2 and 3 students, flexible learning spaces and a STEAM ‘Curiosity Centre.’

The new STEAM ‘Curiosity Centre’ is a creative space that will enhance the school’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics curriculum.

The new learning centre at Yeronga State School also features a new administration area, seminar spaces for professional development, and new amenities, as well as a lift for accessibility.

School’s old dental building (Photo credit: Yeronga State School/Facebook)

On 13 February 2023, local member for Miller Mark Bailey and Education Minister Grace Grace joined the school community for the official opening of the new centre, which was designed to cater for enrolment growth.

Mr Bailey said the new learning centre was designed with the growing Miller community in mind, adding capacity for more than 200 extra students to attend their great local state school.

Ms Grace emphasised how the innovative project has given an old dental facility a new lease at life, after it was transformed into a new learning and administrative centre for the school.

“This project is a major investment in the school and the community of Yeronga and is an example of the Palaszczuk Government’s focus on creating good jobs and better services to enhance our great Queensland lifestyle,” Ms Grace said.

Meanwhile, Yeronga State School Principal Eunice Webb school community is delighted with the new facilities, which have been in use since Term 3, 2022.

“It really is wonderful to have all of our administration functions relocated to the centre of the school. The project has given the school community a real boost,” Ms Webb said.

Read: Message in a Bottle Found at Junction Park State School Finds Its Way Home After 86 Years

Delivered by Kane Constructions, 30 jobs were supported during the transformation of the old dental facility, with 17 apprentices and two trainees learning their trade on site.

Construction of New Yeronga Community Centre Begins

After nearly five years of planning, the construction of a new Yeronga Community Centre at the old TAFE Site has finally commenced.

Bryant Constructions, the appointed contractor, has been mobilising on site and has been doing excavation and piling work for the foundations at the start of February. The ceremonial turning of the sod took place on Friday, the 17th, with Mark Bailey MP, Graham Perrett MP and Cr Nicole Johnston.

The actual construction will begin at the end of February with a projected completion date at the end of the year. Pandemic delays affected the development’s progress and planning between 2020 and 2021 after the demolition of the old TAFE site in 2019.

The Yeronga Community Centre is part of a Yeronga Priority Development Area spanning three hectares and covering Villa St and Park Rd. The location is close to the Yeronga State High School and accessible to the arterial road network, rail and bus services.

The two-storey venue will become the permanent home of the Annerley Stephens History Group and All Gauge Model Railway Club and will give access to valuable social and support services.

The activated site is only the first stage of the development as future plans will also include a housing complex, retail centre, children’s health centre and an aged-care facility.

Learn more about the Yeronga Master Plan

The Beginnings of Collins Estate, the ‘Most Cheerful’ Address in Annerley

Did you know that Collins Estate was once described as the “most delightful” and “most cheerful” section of Ipswich Road in Annerley in the 1880s?

Prior to the separation, the Stephens Division, which had Annerley as its centre, was mostly a rundown suburb filled with dairy farms and the lands within the Collins Estate belong to the Parish of Yeerongpilly. However, after the 1880s, parcels of land were being auctioned off to the public.

The Collins Estate was established for residential development after ratepayers succeeded in their petition to create the Stephens Division as a separate entity from the Yeerongpilly Division.

In June 1887, Collins Estate was auctioned off by Hooker, Son & Elliott with 199 suburban allotments. The section covered blocks of land near Ipswich Road in the west and Ekibin Road in the south. It comprised five streets: Rose, Jane, Alice, Annie and Mary. These were later renamed to Lambton Street, Lotian Street, Bower Street, Real Street and Gustavson Street.

In its advertisements, Collins Estate’s selling points were its “rich chocolate soil” set among a “beautiful gentle slope.” This made the land ideally suited for growing fruits and vegetables.

Photo Credit: National Library of Austraia

This area was apparently the “envy of passersby” for its excellent roads. The coveted location was close to Junction Hotel, the first hotel in Annerley, and the tramway. These facets made the estate the most convenient place to build a home or business.

The auction resulted in 53 sales within two hours with a rate between £25 to £92 per land. The auction was well-attended and was considered a success.

Collins Estate Auction Success — Photo credit: National Library of Australia

Published 10 February 2023

Junction Hotel in Annerley Up for a Stylish Renovation

Junction Hotel, an Annerley landmark and one of the most popular pubs in the south of Brisbane, is set for a renovation into a stylish pub with a beautiful courtyard and a children’s play area.

Under the design made by Craig W Chandler, Junction Hotel will soon have an extension on the southeast section of the property. A glass atrium will be integrated into the hotel’s facade on Annerley Rd whilst the bottle shop will be retrofitted as a smaller space.

The planners said that the new design will not increase the floor size of the hotel nor will it also change the heritage-listed property’s appearance. A fig tree close to the property will not be impacted by the development as well.

“The proposal is consistent with the Moorooka-Stephens District Neighbourhood Plan as it is a at compatible scale with existing and likely future surrounding buildings and is consistent with the Neighbourhood Plan outcomes,” VGF Town Planners stated in the development application (DA A006180494).

“The proposed development maintains and enhances the site’s position as a high-quality place for residents and visitors of Annerley to live, work and recreate.”

“The site is highly accessible, situated within a District Centre and at the confluence of arterial roads, yet in proximity to nearby residential uses. The proposed development will continue to contribute, as it does, as a continuing and fully functional hotel, providing and delivering significant benefits of an enhanced, updated quality to the locality.

“To elaborate, the proposed development will contribute significant benefits to the area and will improve convenience and comfort of existing levels of hotel and other patronage attending the site for social and recreational purposes, and their continued quiet appreciation and enjoyment of the facility at yet further improved levels of satisfaction.”

Council is still assessing the DA filed on the 20th of December 2022. A spokesperson, however, stated that a possible revision of the plans could be recommended to preserve the heritage site.

Proposed VEND Market Place Annerley Gets Greenlight

Development site | Photo credit: Brisbane City Council / developmenti.brisbane.qld.gov.au/

A proposal to establish a VEND Retail Marketplace on Ipswich Road in Annerley has been approved.

To be situated at 289 Ipswich Road, Annerley, the proposed development will have a similar design concept but a much smaller space than that of Virginia VEND Market Place. The site is improved by an existing two-storey commercial building that was previously occupied by “Wow Sight and Sound” and then “Pillowtalk”.

According to plans, the existing building at the 2,456 sqm site will be converted into a specialised indoor market offering an array of small business stalls and a cafe. The marketplace will also provide an innovative space for local creatives where they could come together and share their design knowledge and create within the community-based workshop space.

“Aimed at providing a unique retail offering, similar to the Virginia VEND Market Place, the proposal aims to embrace the natural and active commercial environment along this portion of Ipswich Road through an internal retrofit of the existing commercial building.” – Radian Planning Group.

Proposed Vend Market Place Annerley Gets Greenlight — Ground floor level floor plan | Photo credit: Brisbane City Council / developmenti.brisbane.qld.gov.au/

No additional gross floor area or physical extension is planned for the existing building but rather some minor alterations to the existing car parking area at ground and basement levels for it to conform with current Australian parking standards will be undertaken.

The retail shop tenancy component of the proposal will have an approximated 662 sqm of gross floor area on the ground floor containing 52 shop spaces and 11 larger spaces. The existing mezzanine upper level will be retained and used for storage, staff office, and staff amenities.

Similar to Virginia VEND Market Place, the development is planned to be open from 7 am to 4 pm, Monday to Sunday.

Published 9-February-2023

Yeerongpilly Green Attracts Businesses Soon to Open

Yeerongpilly Green Riverside Village is gearing up to open and its retail hub is already attracting tenants, with six businesses signing leases for the site.

Read: Stage 1 Of Yeerongpilly Green Riverside Now Underway

BWS will occupy 149sqm of space at YG Riverside Village whilst Jimmy Rod’s barber shop and Jessica James Hair will have 56sqm and 67sqm respectively. A pharmacy with 220sqm space will also open at the site, along with a massage inn which signed for a 80sqm space.

Yeerongpilly Green is a new urban village comprising numerous key precincts including commercial, retail, residential and entertainment, alongside parkland and recreation areas.

The $850 million masterplanned community will have a full line Woolworths Supermarket, curated restaurants and cafes.

It’s a joint venture between Consolidated Properties Group, CVS Lane Capital Partners and the Queensland Government to turn 14 hectares of riverfront land into a major urban renewal project.

Consolidated Property Groups, one of the developers behind the project stated that one of the key things they want to deliver is significant retail amenity onsite to Yeerongpilly and surrounding residents.

Consolidated Properties Group Head of Retail Kieran Cox said the six new tenants had signed on in the past six months.

“It is very exciting to see the retail hub take shape at YG Riverside Village with six new retailers offering a broad range of services to add to Woolworths,” Mr Cox said.

“We call it YG Riverside Village because we want it to have a real community feel with residents able to visit their hairdresser, barber, bottle shop, massage shop and nail salon on site, and to know all the owners by name.”

Read: Check Out This Family-Friendly Cafe in Yeronga

Upon completion it will boast 50,000sqm of retail and commercial, and 3,000 new residents. The precinct is set to launch in mid to late 2023.