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Employers are optimistic about job prospects, with twice as many businesses planning to hire new staff in 2014 compared to the end of this year, according to credit information agency Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).
The Business Expectations Survey has shown economic confidence, despite the International Monetary Fund’s prediction that Australia’s unemployment rate will increase to six per cent next year. Continue reading
The Jeep Magic Millions Carnival and Race makes its glamorous mark on the Gold Coast this week boosting tourism with visitors from around Australia and the world.
Minister for Tourism and Major Events Jann Stuckey said the Magic Millions Carnival and Race Day provided an outstanding combination of fashion, bloodstock sales and horse-racing to complement the Gold Coast’s fantastic weather, shopping, dining and entertainment. Continue reading
Preparations for an event encompassing the great loves and creative escapades of the late Jiggy Johnson are underway. Gettin’ Jiggy will be a celebration of the life, art and music of Jiggy Johnson and is slotted to take place at Dust Temple, Currumbin Creek Rd, Currumbin, on Saturday 11th January, 2014.
Jiggy Johnson was a talented artist, musician, skater and surfer who had a huge influence across these communities at his longtime home on the Gold Coast and in his native New Zealand. Continue reading
Chinatown is forging ahead – streetscape construction commenced in November and the project’s expected completion is in mid 2014, in time for the light rail opening.
Gold Coast Chinatown is part of the broader plan to revitalise Southport as the Gold Coast CBD. Continue reading
The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Coordination Commission has confirmed that the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games™ (GC2018) are on-time and on-budget following this week’s visit.
Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games, Jann Stuckey welcomed confirmation this morning from Coordination Commission Chairman Bruce Robertson that they were impressed with the progress made.
“The Coordination Commission brings great expertise in the delivery of this event. Their recognition of work underway and already completed means that we are set to deliver a world-class event,” Ms Stuckey said. Continue reading
In the past few years the much loved retailers of Southport have suffered through the battleground that is the construction zone for Light Rail, newer shinier centers opening along the Gold Coast Corridor, consumers dumping their local bricks and mortar stores in favour of no name global online competition.
What sort of retailer could cope with this amongst many other negatives that plague retail and the local area in general? Let’s just say here, it ain’t another $2 shop, cheap chain or fast food outlet that the Southport hub requires. It needs a Monkey, a Trash Monkey to be exact. For it is the traits of a monkey that can prove a success at such a bleak time ~mischievous, clever, friendly, fun, loving, curious, energetic, inventive and always entertaining! Continue reading
Gold Coast light rail construction will shut down in parts of Southport and Surfers Paradise for the Christmas holiday trading season.
Chairman John Witheriff said the construction shut-down was implemented in response to community requests and would come into effect this week.
“In areas where major construction will not occur for Christmas, kerb to kerb construction will be complete with no heavy machinery work on roads or footpaths, as agreed between GoldLinQ, representative business groups and other stakeholders,” Mr Witheriff said. Continue reading
MOBILE phone retailer turned property manager Ron Bakir (pictured) has taken out the title of Gold Coast Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2013.
The former owner of the Gold Coast-based Crazy Ron’s mobile phones retail chain has been quietly chipping away at the property market since 2004.
In that time he has forged a new path in property through his company HomeCorp Group which has developed more than 1500 residential lots across Australia and turned over $500 million in a sector that has been both punishing and rewarding in recent times. His Surfers Paradise-based company, HomeCorp Group, has just breached $106 million in turnover, up 34 per cent on a bumper $79.1 million in 2012.
Bakir epitomises the never-say-die attitude of our young entrepreneurs as he continues to build his business with a renewed focus on the Gold Coast market next year. Continue reading
One of Australia’s leading architectural firms has delivered a ‘seriously fun’ proposal to win the Gold Coast Cultural Precinct international design competition.
The winning team,led by ARM Architecture, was unanimously selected by an eight-member independent Design Competition jury.
Praised by jurors as ‘playful and inclusive’, the precinct plan aims to entice residents and visitors to experience and participate in production of arts and culture.
Mayor Tom Tate, praised ARM for a concept which ‘understands and celebrates’ the Gold Coast’s vibrant and egalitarian culture. Continue reading
Now with over 30 international and national awards since its inception, The Ecovillage at Currumbin must be running low on room to add more feathers to this heavily ladened cap! And its no wonder that this sustainable community development has been continually recognised for its innovation and committment to exercising sustainable living practices – effectively setting the national benchmark for others to aspire to.
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