Gotta love the look on that latest Brisbane Olympic Stadium design that won’t put pressure on the Government at all. You got the centrepiece venue in there with the athletes village on top as well as an aquatic centre, a warm-up track & many other hotel and commercial spaces. Yes, it doesn’t say much about transport nearby but at least the Stadium would be situated in the North Shore area of Brisbane. So not that hard compared to the QASC plan down south in Nathan with no transport.
If accepted, it will be entirely private-funded with $6 billion to get this going between 2026-2031 – just one year out from the home 2032 Summer Olympics.
But then it’s not even enough for the Government to change their mind unfortunately when they would like to have all of their proposed 2032 venues being publicly owned and operated, especially when you got Steven Miles in charge as Premier at the moment with the next State Election around the corner this October.
Well, if some of the venues we’ve seen two weeks ago from Paris 2024 was probably owned, why can’t Brisbane if they want to stage the best Olympic Games ever like our athletes do? Food for thought but I hope the current or even the future elected QLD Government can take the weight off their shoulders. Yes, it’s important what’s best for the state but this is an opportunity though to get things right. That way, they can send a really good message to NSW, VIC, WA and even the world that Brisbane can have a beautiful world-class stadium to stage world-class sports events and concerts.
There’s still at least 6-7 years away & one week already gone from the closing ceremony of Paris 2024, but we hope we can see light at the end of the tunnel going into next year before it’s too late & maybe Brisbane 2032 may not be good as Paris.
One thing for sure though is maybe just build the new world-beater Brisbane Olympic Stadium by itself that should normally cost around $1 billion like most other New Stadiums do nowadays rather than have $3-6 billion involving the other venues on top of the centrepiece Stadium.
I understand what’s it like to have the world’s best swimming events being held in an arena and even in a large-sized Stadium now like we’ve seen with the Paris La Defense Arena at the Olympics a few weeks ago, the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis two months ago for the US Swimming Trials, and now LA’s SoFi Stadium is going to be the proposed venue there for LA 2028. With the proposed 18,000 Brisbane Live Arena going to be the swimming venue, just turn back on the QASC renovation plan which doesn’t mean much when there’s little access to transport by going with the $1B Stadium.