Who owns the chalk hotel

However, local businesses hope the Queensland government's long-awaited Cross River Rail project will revive the precinct's economy. Cross River Rail Vulture Street businesses for lease. Photo: Tony Moore. The Chalk Hotel, for several years the home of Brisbane Lions supporters, has gone into receivership.

Vulture and Stanley streets, near the Gabba, where Queensland first won the Sheffield Shield in, where the Lions won three premierships in a row in the s, where Powderfinger practised and then Peter Siddle took a Test hat trick , is run down despite a flourish of small roadworks. One Stanley Street business that has survived, despite almost no crucial foot traffic, is the ski and snow equipment business Snowscene.

Owner Emily Warbrick, a member of the Gabba Business Association, noticed foot traffic dropping dramatically in their one-kilometre strip of Woolloongabba's Stanley Street over the past 12 years. Snowscene has been at two locations in Stanley Street over 16 years, both directly across the street from the old Go Print site and the Department of Mapping and Surveying's Sunmap Centre.

Cross River Rail's Woolloongabba site in April As the Queensland government staff in those big businesses declined, then disappeared, local businesses began to see their lights go out. Near the Brisbane Cricket Ground, Coles took the bold decision several years ago to move into the Gabba Centre development — where the old Woolloongabba Hotel stood — across from the Gabba Cricket Ground.

New Cross River Rail design images. The track is set to run under the upgraded Woolloongabba station. Photo: Supplied. It has been 12 years since Labor's then-transport minister Paul Lucas decided it was time Brisbane took rail underground. Today Mr Lucas, who always wanted to be remembered as "the minister for building things", has retired from state politics and chairs the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority. It is needed because the Merivale rail bridge near Roma Street station — Brisbane's single rail link between Brisbane's northside and the booming Sunshine Coast and its southside including the growing Gold Coast , will soon be unable to cope with the number of trains.

Don't go queueing for a drink on the corner of Stanley and Reid streets or planning your post-cricket or -footy brews just yet, however. The watering hole's revamp will form part of the surrounding site's redevelopment, meaning that it's likely to be a couple more years in the making.

Still, the resurrection of the pub on the city's outskirts will come as welcome news for locals, or anyone who headed to the inner east for a pint and a pizza during the ten years it was in operation. Since shutting up shop when the company behind the hotspot went into receivership , the building has lain dormant, with nothing else popping up inside to replace it.

The Chalk's reopening is planned once the rest of development is finished, with construction slated to start within the next year, and to take up to 18 months. Via The Courier-Mail. Published on November 19, by Sarah Ward. Login with Facebook. Don't have a profile? I agree to the terms and conditions. The Playmaker. It's Friday.