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On Thursday 28 January, Greater Springfield welcomed more than 150 VIP's to annouce its presence to the world and launch the 'We Mean Business' campaign.

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Businesses interested in moving to Greater Springfield have a new place to call home with the approval of the $1.1 billion shopping and residential precinct, Brookwater Urban Village.

Since launching its We Mean Business campaign, the Springfield Land Corporation has been kept busy with enquiries from businesses who are keen to find out what's on offer at Australia's largest master planned development.

The We Mean Business campaign aims to poach businesses from around the globe by offering a complete business package available at Greater Springfield.

Ipswich City Council approved the development of the Brookwater Urban Village, with proposed facilities including 514 residential dwellings (including more than 400 apartments), 150 hotel rooms, 20,000m2 of commercial space, 15,000m2 of retail area and indoor entertainment offerings.

Springfield Land Corporation's Executive General Manager of Planning and Infrastructure Russell Luhrs said development of the vibrant Brookwater Urban Village was an important step in planning for the future centres of Greater Springfield that will provide valuable services for the community.

"The development of the Urban Village over the next 15 years will see the creation of a high quality precinct giving the community an outstanding place to eat, live, shop and enjoy life."

Once completed the Brookwater Urban Village will provide a mix of business and pleasure with the Brookwater Village Hotel, Brookwater Office Park, Brookwater Village Shopping Centre, Main Street and Village Square framed by a range of quality living options.

"The residential apartments to be built as part of this new precinct will expand on the already diverse range of housing options available in Greater Springfield," he said.

"The signature hotel complex will also form an integral part of the development by allowing visitors from around the globe direct access to the Greg Norman designed Brookwater Golf Course which has been ranked the number one public golf course in Queensland for the past five years.

"In addition, the Urban Village will be built just a two minute drive from the largest planned shopping centre in Australia, Orion Springfield Town Centre, and a three minute drive from Education City and the future Health City Springfield."

Ipswich City Councillor and Chair of the Planning and Development Committee, Paul Tully, said Brookwater Urban Village would complement the CBDs of Springfield and Ipswich City and confirm the Western Corridor as Queensland's fastest growing region.

"Brookwater Urban Village will be a great asset to what is already one of the country's most desirable business and residential addresses," Councillor Tully said.

A recent independent survey of 500 business leaders throughout Australia revealed almost 48 per cent would prefer to move to South-East Queensland over Melbourne or Sydney.

The major reasons why a company would move locations cited in the survey include cheaper lease (28%), custom-built premises (16%), proximity to public transport (15.5%), location within a business hub (14.3%), a workforce living within 5 minutes (7.8%) and access to world-class IT (7.4%).

"Greater Springfield offers all of this and more now with the approval of the Brookwater Urban Village and is certain to drive further interest from businesses across Queensland and around Australia," Mr Luhrs said.

Businesses that accept the opportunity to move to Greater Springfield are also in the running to win an incentive package worth half a million dollars.  More information on the We Mean Business campaign, competition and prize is available at www.greaterspringfield.com.au/business 

The Brookwater Urban Village will be built next door to the Augusta Parkway and the Brookwater Golf Course and Clubhouse.

The area currently has access to Augusta Parkway and the adjoining Centenary Highway and will be well serviced by the future Springfield Central train station.

In an ironic twist, Greater Springfield's $230 million Polaris Data Centre has left the door ajar for businesses looking to capitalise on the final remaining floor space in the technologically advanced fortress.

Known for its impenetrable security - including biometric fingerprint scanners, man traps and 24x7x365 manned security - the Polaris Data Centre has just 900m2 of raised floor space remaining from a total of 9,999m2.

Springfield Land Corporation's Executive Director of Commercial Development, Chris Schroor, said tenants of the final remaining space in Polaris would enjoy some "high class" neighbours in the virtual address.

"Anyone who chooses to take up tenancy in Polaris Data Centre will reside alongside respectable tenants such as Suncorp, Citec and Ipswich City Council.

"Tenants of Polaris Data Centre enjoy a fast, secure and reliable private dark fibre connection to Brisbane and Sydney at surprisingly affordable rates," he said.

Designed as a primary and secondary IT disaster recovery facility, the centre's primary functions include data storage and exchange facilities for telecommunications carriers as well as hosting mission-critical ICT systems for Government departments and corporate enterprises.

"With lease rates starting from $3200/m2 a lot of businesses will be able to relocate their IT servers from their current offices to free up space and save money while also benefiting from the cutting edge benefits offered by Polaris," Mr Schroor said.

Polaris Data Centre offers almost 7000m2 of raised floor area over three storeys of climate and humidity controlled ‘data floors'. Onsite is also power generators and enough fuel to power the entire facility at N+2 redundancy for 48 hours.

"Essentially Polaris Data Centre enables businesses to continue to operate in the event of a disaster for up to two days meaning improved productivity and a decreased risk of the loss of crucial data."

Polaris Data Centre has power availability of 800W/m2 and stores 2.5 million litres of water onsite (2/3 the capacity of an Olympic swimming pool) to ensure the air temperature on every floor does not deviate from x and y degrees Celsius.

Michael Page of Coffey Projects played a vital role in the project management of Polaris Data Centre and was delighted to be awarded the "Runner-Up" award for project management in the category of projects above $100m at the 2009 Australian Institute of Project Management awards.

"Once again we have been proud to represent the Polaris joint venture team (Springfield Land Corporation and Suncorp)

"The lucky businesses that choose to take up the final tenancies in Polaris can rest assured they will be moving in to a facility that will provide them with a world class connection to the business world, ‘fort knox' style security, an uninterrupted power supply and peace of mind to carry on with their business rather than worry about their IT capabilities," he said.

To find out more about Polaris Data Centre or enquire as to how you can take advantage of the award winning facility contact Chris Schroor on +61 438 642 370 or c.schroor@springfieldland.com.au.
 

The rapidly growing workforce of Greater Springfield will soon enjoy one of Australia's most impressive parklands with Queensland Premier recently joining an array of dignitaries in Robelle Domain for the first official event in the soon-to-be-opened Springfield Central Parklands.

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