If you could only go back in time to 1987, you would not want to walk around the south bank of the Brisbane River. As for the CBD, it drove home the big country town tag Brissie had down south. Sydney had many of the landmarks it has today and Melbourne was being reinvented but dear old Brissie was a sleepy capital that held little interest for anyone outside Queensland. Enjoy the 2024 version.
@@thequeitone59 no issue but Brissie didn't take off until Expo 88 bought the world to the river city. Bulldozers fixed what decades of neglect would never touch and the site became Southbank after Expo finished. No sane investor would have built a six-star hotel on that side of the river and families would have avoided it like the plague. Whatever taxpayer dollars went into Expo, it was worth every cent.
We went to the Sky Deck on Friday, too, and got to watch the F18 practice flyover, too. Was so good!
We really wanted to go but the queue was terrifying😬 will go another day!
There is still a leisure deck to open. A large outdoor space inside the arc of the building on level 7. Will have an outdoor cinema etc.
Will eventually have 50 new eating places open.
All the old buildings have been renovated by Queens Wharf project and will be open in later stages with bars, shopping, museums etc.
I can’t wait!
If you could only go back in time to 1987, you would not want to walk around the south bank of the Brisbane River. As for the CBD, it drove home the big country town tag Brissie had down south. Sydney had many of the landmarks it has today and Melbourne was being reinvented but dear old Brissie was a sleepy capital that held little interest for anyone outside Queensland. Enjoy the 2024 version.
Why's that, what was issue in 1987?
@@thequeitone59 no issue but Brissie didn't take off until Expo 88 bought the world to the river city. Bulldozers fixed what decades of neglect would never touch and the site became Southbank after Expo finished. No sane investor would have built a six-star hotel on that side of the river and families would have avoided it like the plague. Whatever taxpayer dollars went into Expo, it was worth every cent.
Only stage 1 is open
It won’t be fully completed for a couple more years
I saw your comment and I didn't know they came in "stages" where did you get this infomation from i wanna know