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Filed Under: INVEST, LIVE, PROJECTS Tagged With: Economic Development Queensland, frontline workers, Gold Coast, homes for Queenslanders, Housing, Live, Lumina, students, work and study

New homes for health workers

Artist impression of the proposed housing development at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct

Plans have been lodged to build hundreds of new build-to-rent homes in the Gold Coast’s Health and Knowledge Precinct.

UBS Real Estate Nominees Australia Pty Limited (UBS) has lodged a development application with Economic Development Queensland on the last residential zoned site at the precinct aimed specifically at frontline health workers and students.

The proposal will see the delivery of 878 homes, including 176 affordable units, comprising of studio, one, two, and three-bedroom apartments across four buildings. It will cater for an estimated 1350 new residents right next to the university hospital and Griffith University campus.

The development application also includes plans for a landscaped plaza as well as resident facilities including retail outlets, cafes, and a gym all close to existing public transport networks.

The deliberate mix of dwelling types is expected to further diversify and broaden the range of housing and rental price points that currently exist within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct and the wider Southport location.

Following the submission of the development application and the finalisation of commercial negotiations, it’s expected construction could begin next year.

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  • Media release: Homes for Queenslanders: Plans lodged for 878 key worker homes on Gold Coast
  • Find out more on the Lumina Gold Coast website
Artist impression of the proposed housing development at the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct

September 3, 2024 By Gemma Bull

Filed Under: BUSINESS, INVEST, TECHNOLOGY

International MedTech company joins GCHKP ecosystem

With a vision of the Gold Coast as a leading global centre for endovascular R&D and training, neurovascular device company Wallaby-phenox  (Wallaby, phenox) has based its Vice President for international direct markets, including Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East, in a new office in the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct.

The US/Chinese/German-operated company will leverage recent investment by Doctors Hal Rice and Laetitia de Villiers in their world-first NeuTex Image-guided surgery and robotics training centre, in partnership with global medical leader Philips, to stage global expansion in treatments for stroke and other conditions.

A 20-year-veteran of the medical device industry with a passion for the life-saving potential of neuro-interventional technologies, Wallaby-phenox’s Kirk Slater has never been more excited at the opportunity to save lives and reduce disability through minimally-invasive endovascular procedures.

And he loves that he can achieve global impact from his adopted home on the Gold Coast.

“The Gold Coast is a great location to access the Asia-Pacific, but the unique value is the opportunity to work closely with NeuTex and doctors Rice and de Villiers, who I’ve known and worked with as leading innovators for 15 years,” Kirk says.

Originally from South Africa and having worked for both major and smaller MedTech companies in Australia and New Zealand, Kirk is relishing a return to a smaller company with a growing global reach, accelerated when Wallaby Medical, jointly based in the US and China, acquired German neuro-interventional leader phenox in April 2022.

Their portfolio of medical products now includes catheters, coil systems and flow modulation devices, with 5 R&D centers, 3 production bases, over 700 employees worldwide, and more than 350 global patents granted or pending.

“I like building things and being an underdog,” Kirk says.

“In this role, I have the opportunity to be creative and disruptive, and we need innovation if we are to substantially increase endovascular treatment for stroke over the prevailing protocol of clot-busting drugs, which unfortunately leaves some patients clinically excluded from treatment due to time-sensitivity and underlying conditions.”

Kirk stresses that it’s not a battle of drugs vs devices, but an opportunity to continue to evolve endovascular treatments to achieve broader reach by taking a ‘value-based’ healthcare approach.

“When considering treatment options and costs we want to be evaluating what one ‘quality life year’ is worth to the individual and society – stroke unfortunately still causes a lot of disability,” he says.

 

Specialist training fellows in the NeuTex Image-Guided Therapy Surgery and Robotics Training Centre which opened in May 2023

The neurovascular field has led the way in minimally-invasive image-guided interventions, treating strokes and brain aneurysms by feeding tiny devices such as coils and stents into the brain through fine catheters to repair blockages. The future includes treating patients with neurodegenerative conditions using implantable devices.

Kirk with Wallaby-phenox President Global Commercial Peter Cooke (second from right) with BirdDog and Remedi CEO Dan Miall (left) and Medical Innovation Manager Ben Wills (right)

Beyond conditions in the brain, innovation in cardiovascular, peripheral vascular, spinal and renal treatments using catheters and devices present the opportunity to help many more patients.

“The Neurovascular device market is worth $4-5 billion worldwide, compared to the $60 billion global cardiology market, which shows the order of magnitude of patients that innovation in cardiology could serve.”

Kirk plans to grow a team of 6 based at Cohort Innovation Space, with the same number based across Australia within the next few years.

He’ll concentrate on opening up the Indian market and the broader Asia-Pacific region, as well as direct entry into Latin America – a big brief that requires long days and nights to accommodate different timezones.

Equally, he’s focused on what comes next – innovation in catheter designs that are thinner and more durable – and next-generation training, partnering with NeuTex and their technology partner BirdDog, an Australian ASX-listed company that provides high-fidelity video capture and software to enable remote proctoring.

“We want to be the first neurovascular device company to deliver truly global workshops via high-quality video links that provide realistic experiences for trainees in multiple locations at once,” Kirk says.

“One day we hope that will extend to using robotics to enable cross-border procedures, where expert clinicians can collaborate to treat complex cases.”

June 22, 2023 By Kathy Kruger

Filed Under: BUSINESS, HEALTH, INVEST, LIVE, PROJECTS

Work commences on premium GCHKP development RDX

(L-R) Debbie McNamara, General Manager EDQ, Craig Mitchell President Northwest Healthcare Properties REIT, Hon Stirling Hinchcliffe, Queensland Minister for Tourism, Innovation and Sport, Dr Hal Rice, Tim Baker, CEO City of Gold Coast

Work has commenced on RDX Lumina, a placemaking Gold Coast Health and Knowledge development by Northwest Healthcare Properties, Australia’s largest healthcare real estate owner.

The Hon. Stirling Hinchliffe, Minister for Tourism, Innovation and Sport yesterday turned sod on the $154m project at a ceremony on the RDX site in the heart of the Precinct’s Lumina commercial district, alongside Northwest President and Regional CEO Craig Mitchell.

RDX is a premium eight-level health and innovation facility fitted for research, biotech, clinical and education functions.

At the ceremony, Mr Hinchcliffe said he expects life sciences work done under RDX’s roof will produce ”innovations that will deliver to the world”.

“We’ll see [RDX] making a massive difference to the way this Precinct delivers on its promise to be a real world-leading cutting edge health and knowledge precinct,” he says. 

Northwest President and Regional CEO Craig Mitchell says the building’s position in the heart of GCHKP will create significant collaboration opportunities for RDX tenants.

“By creating a world-class facility to attract the best people in the industry and encourage further investment in research, development and training, we hope to make a substantial commitment to the broader healthcare industry into the future, in Queensland and beyond.” 

“The GCHKP location represents an added opportunity to collaborate with Griffith University researchers, other clinicians and industry partners.”

Mr Mitchell says RDX will be used for cutting edge life sciences work such as neuroendovascular radiology, interventional cardiology innovation and training, rehabilitation inpatient and outpatient clinical services, human clinical trials, research and virtual care via robotic technologies.

“It’s very important to build the ecosystem where you’ve got the private sector, the public sector, PhD students and researchers—an ecosystem looking at how you take research all the way through to the patient, the whole journey from the lab to bed.” 

After the sod turning, the official party attended the Precinct’s new Neutex Image-Guided Surgical Training and Technologies Centre for a tour conducted by co-founder Dr Hal Rice.

Neutex, a committed tenant of RDX, is working until construction is complete from commercial Precinct space provided by Northwest to deliver world-leading training to specialists from across the Asia Pacific using the latest Philips Image-guided therapy system and technologies. 

The 6-Star Green Star RDX is designed as an all-electric, carbon-neutral building and due for completion mid-2025. 

With Evans Long’s $80m eight-storey development Proxima due for completion 2024, RDX is part of a construction boom in the GCHKP, driven by nearly $250m of private investment. 

June 1, 2023 By Gemma Bull

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