After sitting mostly vacant for a number of years, the former Australian Maritime College campus at Beauty Point is looking to its new future.
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New owners, Sydney-based developers Traders in Purple, is hoping to have a post traumatic stress disorder centre run from the site.
Traders in Purple spokesman Rod Bramich said a Vietnam veteran referred a doctor, who works with PTSD patients and had been trying to set up a centre like this for a while, to the developers.
"[His] thrust is not just veterans, but emergency responders as well," he said.
"There are all sorts of angles to PTSD that I wasn't aware of, and things such as general well-being and being able to fit back into society because that's all some people's lives have been."
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The centre could be a mixture of rehabilitation, training and wellness, Mr Bramich said.
"The beauty of the site is the location and its serenity," he said.
"Traders in Purple are hugely supportive of doing something there. From our perspective this would be a great use of the site."
Mr Bramich said talks are in their earliest stages at the moment, with the hub a long way off.
"It's early, conceptual and nothing is set in stone yet, it's just going through the process," he said.
"We don't know, at this point, exactly what is required. We don't know what the end point is yet. Is the site needed for 20, 50 or 100 people? Does it need to be something for families, just individuals or both? We don't know yet.
"There are whole bunch of offerings around the country in this sort of space and we don't want to reinvent the wheel. It's about looking at what works and then get it going."
Accommodation at the site is being used by fruit pickers, with a long-standing lease contract in place.
The federal government announced it would invest $30 million into a network of six Veterans' Wellbeing Centres at last year's election. However, it is understood Tasmania was not considered for one of the hubs.
"We just have to get to the point where someone says 'we want to do it'," Mr Bramich said.
Traders in Purple bought the site in 2016 with no grand plans. It was the first property the developers bought in the state, since buying and proposing a large development near Evandale, with another in the construction-phase in the state's south.
They called for expressions of interest in the Beauty Point site late last year. However, the PTSD hub idea did not come out of that process.
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