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Rockhampton region a renewable energy hot spot
Rockhampton has emerged as one of the nation’s leading renewable energy generation points, with the region named as the possible home to four wind farms, a solar farm, and a battery storage complex.
The proposed wind farms will be located north of Kalapa, between Westwood and Mount Morgan, and in the vicinity of the Mount Hopeful television transmitter station.
Rockhampton Region Mayor Tony Williams said the building of these new facilities will give the Rockhampton region the opportunity to play an important part in the generation of renewable energy.
“Since the construction of the Stanwell Power Station in 1996, electricity generation has been one of the strengths in our region,” Mayor Williams said.
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The Richardson Road site last sold in 1987 for $1.52 million.
In 2020, the land was valued at $1.3 million. The facility sits on 1.6ha.
Knight Frank Rockhampton’s Neale Crow, representing the sale, said it was a significant offering given the size and the location.
“It’s a big facility on 4.79 hectares in the middle of Rockhampton, up to 5000sqm of space, there’s a fair bit of warehousing opportunity on a low impact zoning,” he said.
Mr Crow said the site had been sitting vacant since the closure while the liquidators had been going through the appropriate processes.
In the few days the facility has been on the market, Mr Crow said he had already received a handful of enquiries.
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Fresh from celebrating the major milestone of marking 10 years in business, Rockhampton company Creative Conway has just hit another goal – moving out of the home office into a CBD space.
Angelo Conway heads up the graphic design studio which specialises in any type of graphic design from branding, website design and development, signage design and printing.
“Anything that can be designed, we do it,” he said.
Angelo started the business in 2010 as he didn’t like the idea of working for other people.
“I thought if I was going to go do something I was going to do it myself … It was always my goal,” he said.