The company behind the Ridgeside Lane project near Evandale have announced they purchased an Australian Maritime College campus at Beauty Point.
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This was the first site the company purchased in the state.
They have since purchased two more sites.
Beauty Point Bagot Street AMC campus
The Australian Maritime College listed its Bagot Street Beauty Point Campus for sale in November 2016.
It was sold to make way for the expansion of the college’s Newnham campus.
The site was used for accommodation and theory-based training, but the college began to phase that out in 2013.
Traders in Purple principal Charlie Daoud said the company bought the land in 2016, with it finally settling in 2017.
The developers do not have any plans for the site at the moment.
The land is zoned residential, and was well maintained by the University of Tasmania, Mr Daoud said.
“There is nothing like that, that I know of, available for a college or university to just walk straight in and start within in a month,” he said.
“It would be a terrible shame to pull a facility like that down.”
Mr Daoud said Traders in Purple hoped a training college or university would come to the site and “use it to its maximum potential”.
Half the site is taken up by the college, with the rest left as open land.
“Hopefully we’re looking at adding some sort of retirement aged care facility, and somewhere for additional teaching and learning,” Mr Daoud said.
“The training doesn’t necessarily have to be associated with what’s happening with the [maritime] college, but maybe training for support workers or nurses.”
Ridgeside Lane
The master plan for a 600-lot land development near Evandale shows that just 1 per cent of the land will be built on.
The $450 million Ridgeside Lane development would also have a hotel, that chain Accor have already committed to running.
Along with the main hotel, a health and well-being retreat and an eco resort are proposed.
There are six different land sizes available for the 600 residential lots, starting with 407 general residential lots that range in size from 450 to 699 square metres.
There are also general residential lots with park frontage, residential super lots and 45 low-density residential lots. Two different types of rural lots are offered.
Aged care facilities, an AFL-sized football ground, botanical gardens and an agricultural centre and education facility are also included in the master plan.
Kingston Park Master Plan
The $300 million Kingston Park Master Plan is a joint project with the Kingborough Council.
The former school site will be transformed to provide about 400 residential dwellings.
A mix of low-, medium- and high-density residential living will be included, as well as a retirement living options.
Mixed-use retail and commercial sites and office spaces are also proposed.
It will be the company’s first project to start in the state.
The 11-hectare site will be developed in several stages over the next eight years.
“Our goal is to attract further public and private investment over the life of the project, including the establishment of significant commercial offerings that will bring much needed employment into the Kingston CBD,” Mr Robinson said.
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