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Demolition works are expected to be finished by the end of June. The long abandoned site will then be put up for sale.

Premium Content Subscriber only TREASURER Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget next week and we will learn how much money will flow for infrastructure, upgrades and other programs in Ipswich. Ahead of the budget, the QT asked all of the city’s elected representatives what they believed to be the priority projects in their patches. As the fastest growing city in Queensland, Ipswich desperately needs the infrastructure to keep up the expected population growth with the total number of residents set to more than double to 558,000 in the next 20 years. Here’s what they said...

Premium Content Subscriber only THE state government is putting the dilapidated Ipswich Transit Centre up for sale a decade after it was all but destroyed by flood waters. The five parcels of land which make up the transit centre site were listed as surplus on the Government Land Register in the middle of March by the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Assets are registered as surplus on the register for a minimum of 30 days so other government departments can decide whether to scoop them up. The Ipswich transit centre during the 2011 floods. This time frame ended last Wednesday. The ...

Premium Content Subscriber only THERE is no clear direction ahead for the future of the Ipswich Transit Centre, which has sat abandoned and derelict since it was flooded ten years ago. The state-owned asset is an unused eyesore in the city’s CBD and residents are eager to see new life breathed into it. Many ideas have been mooted over the years but nothing has ever come to fruition. The abandoned Ipswich Transit Centre in the CBD. It is understood simply demolishing the facility is out of the question as it would cost tens of millions of dollars to do so.