Gold Coast City Council greenlit Bris2032 digs

Article posted by Coliseum, March 23^rd, 2026

Image: City of Gold Coast

A shortlist of developers has been finalized for the 12,000-seat indoor arena at Southport (Australia) which is slated to host the Olympic events.

‘au.headtopics.com’ stated that an indoor arena has been greenlit for Southport with a shortlist of the potential developers submitted to the Gold Coast City Council. The Council planned to build the 12,000-plus capacity arena – slated as a venue for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games – through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP).

The 2032 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXV Olympiad and also known as Brisbane 2032, is a planned international multisport event scheduled to take place from July 23^rd-August 8^th, 2032 in Brisbane, Australia, with venues across the various regions of Queensland.

The 2032 Summer Paralympics, and also known as the 19^th Summer Paralympic Games, and branded as Brisbane 2032, or Bris2032, are an upcoming international multisport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and scheduled to be held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, from August 24^th-September 5^th, 2032.

Bonn (Germany)-based the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is an international non-profit organization and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement.

‘au.headtopics.com’ further stated that land has been made available by the Council at Carey Park (suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia) near the Australia Fair shopping center and across the water from the Sea World. Invest Gold Coast, the Council’s economic development and investment attraction agency, presented its Board-endorsed shortlist to the Council recently following a process that sought expressions of interest from the private sector. Expression Of Interests (EOIs) were sought to design, build, finance, operate, and maintain what would be the City’s largest indoor entertainment and sports venue.

The Sea World is a marine mammal park, oceanarium and theme park located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

The Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said the Council’s support of the arena followed a rigorous assessment of the legacy project’s EOI responses – “It was important to ensure the EOI responses withstood the test for significant City investment and enduring public value. We will now inform all the respondents of the outcome and will be able to share more details in the coming weeks.”

Launching the EOI last year the Invest Gold Coast Chairman Will Hodgman said the process was very much market-led – “We want to give the investors the confidence and delivery certainty they need to get behind this project. We are not prescribing the scope or terms, rather, we’re inviting the international market to help shape this project with world-class expertise and ideas. What we are making clear today is that this opportunity is real, it is coming and the Gold Coast market is ripe for investment.”

Hodgman said demand for the venue was demonstrated by an increasingly youthful population on the traditionally retiree-friendly Gold Coast with the City’s under-20 population forecast to grow to 38 percent by 2041. While Tate has promoted the arena as a Brisbane 2032 venue neither he nor the Council has publicly nominated which Olympic sports it would host. If completed, the Gold Coast Arena would join the other expected venues in the City as an Olympic host – the Gold Coast Hockey Centre, a temporary beach volleyball stadium at Broadbeach (suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia) and the triathlon along the City’s famous waterfront.

The Gold Coast Arena would be delivered by the private sector and not form part of the Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority’s delivery responsibility.

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