Logan Needs an Entertainment Precinct To Be a Competitive City

A City Without a Centre of Gravity

Ask a Brisbane local where to go out and they will say Brunswick Street or Fortitude Valley. Ask a Gold Coast local and they will say Cavill Avenue. Ask a Logan local the same question and you get a pause, then maybe a tavern, a suburban pub, or directions to the M1. For a city of nearly 400,000 people, that is not good enough.

A Growing City Punching Below Its Weight

Logan had 403,515 residents as of June 2024 and is on track to top 500,000 by 2036. In 2023/24 it was the fastest-growing local government area in Queensland at 3.9 per cent. Despite the numbers, our entertainment options are still scattered taverns, shopping-centre food courts and one good market off the motorway. That is a suburb’s offering, not a city’s.

A real city has a place residents are proud to take friends from out of town. Logan does not. Anyone chasing a late dinner, live music or a bar with a bit of character is expected to drive 20 minutes to Brisbane or half an hour to the Gold Coast. That is money leaving Logan every weekend, and it is young residents slowly deciding Logan is the place they sleep, not the place they live.

Pick One Street and Build a Precinct Around It

What Logan is missing is not another set of grants sprinkled across four suburbs. It is a plan for one concentrated entertainment precinct with its own character. One street, one block, one name people can say without needing to explain where it is.

What Logan Loses by Doing Nothing

The 2032 Olympics are coming to South East Queensland and Logan is already getting hotels and transport upgrades. Without a proper entertainment precinct to welcome visitors, Logan will watch Brisbane and the Gold Coast collect the bar tabs while we collect the traffic.

A young city with half a million residents on the horizon should have somewhere of its own to go out on a Saturday night. Logan deserves that much.