Palm Beach Business Centre place making project

Location: between Fourth and Eighth Avenues, and from Cypress Avenue to Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach

Master plan: Palm Beach Business Centre

Design: City Place Making

Build/installation: City of Gold Coast and external contractor

Budget: $250,000

Competed: 2017

The first project to be delivered from the master plan, the mainly low-cost street improvements and upgrades were chosen to maximise the urban design benefits within the budget.

Project details

Artistic road surface treatment at the central pedestrian threshold of Fifth Avenue, which celebrates the street as a community space for events and festivals.
New seating area in Palm Beach Avenue as well as artistic footpath surface treatment, new street trees, garden, feature seating, bicycle rack, drinking fountain and improvements to stormwater infrastructure to reduce localised flooding.
Landscaping along sections of the Gold Coast Highway median between Tenth and Third Avenues
Street furniture refurbishment, improving quality and location of existing street furniture including new drinking fountains, upgraded community notice board in Fifth Avenue, new bicycle racks, streetlights, and repainted plant pots.
New mural on the Palm Beach Hotel wall along Fifth Avenue and treatment of blank walls on the eastern side of the hotel car park.
Road resealing of Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
Safer pedestrian/vehicle environment and a reduction in vehicle speed limit