Providence at Ripley Valley heralds construction boom

CONSTRUCTION is underway on the new township of Providence in Ripley Valley, near Ipswich in South East Queensland – and it is expected to dominate new construction in the region again this year.

Providence will eventually be a 7000-home community, stretching out to 670 hectares, over three times the size of the Brisbane CBD, with more than 300 homes started over the past year. 

Accompanying those homes is millions of dollars worth of construction on parklands, road networks, playgrounds and a neighbourhood centre.

“At our peak this year, we’re expecting more than a thousand workers at any one time to be actively building on site,” Providence project director Michael Khan said at the launch of the project last year.

A 24-home display village is reaching completion and the first residents’ homes are underway. The Providence master plan includes a future town centre designed in a modern ‘main street’ style, supermarket, retail shops and a civic town park. A primary and secondary school are planned, along with a ‘health and wellbeing’ precinct, 15ha of sports and recreational facilities and 200ha of green and open space.

“Within six months of launching, independent data showed Providence was one of the top 10 fastest selling projects in the country, with sales of more than one block of land every day,” Mr Khan said.

“Fast forward that to 2015, and we’re expecting housing construction to be almost as fast."

“The combined construction cost of the 24-home display village is estimated to be more than $6 million which is expected to involve up to 2,500 people during construction of the homes. This ranges from designers and certifiers to all the trades both on and off the site itself to produce the finished product.”

Mr Khan said the growth of housing construction would be a windfall for local builders, and create hundreds of jobs for locals.

“The building industry has believed in us from the very beginning, with land in the display village completely selling out on the day of release to the builders,” Mr Khan said.

He said Providence, about six minutes drive from Springfield and 10 minutes from Ipswich, was the first entirely new town for decades in one of the fastest developing areas of Australia and is the largest single development in the Ripley Valley.

Providence is being created by Amex Corporation, one of Australia’s most successful family-owned residential development companies, which has created 14 sustainable residential communities in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria. Amex Corporation has been in Queensland for more than 25 years having been founded in Perth in 1971 by the Shephard family, whose members remain involved in bringing new communities to life as special places to live.

Amex Corporation has taken a lead role in identifying the potential and creating the vision for the Ripley Valley. The area is now being transformed into one of Australia’s largest master planned communities to accommodate the large population growth in South-East Queensland.

www.myprovidence.com.au

 

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