MILLIONAIRE Gold Coast businessman Terry Morris has joined forces with the team behind the booming Helensvale NightQuarter to develop Australia’s largest night markets.
The new market, to the called The Fareground, will be developed at Carrara in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
As well, the established Ferry Road Market at the Brickworks plans to extend into night dining, further feeding the city’s addiction to market-style eating out.
The new developments come in the wake of the success of the initial Miami Marketta and the NightQuarter.
Miami Marketta owner Emma Milikins said the food and entertainment precincts were feeding off each other.
“The Gold Coast is quite a young city and when something new pops up we have a tendency to jump on it and replicate it and that’s the case with these markets at the moment,” she said.
“You can have the richest and the poorest person sitting at the same table and you would never know.”
Michelle Christoe, the brains behind the NightQuarter, said the markets were more than just food.
Inside the Night Quarter.
“They have become a destination because it’s not just about the food — it’s about the entertainment and the atmosphere as well,” she said.
The Fareground is to be built under the branches of a 250-year old Moreton Bay fig tree on a two-hectare site adjacent to the Carrara Markets.
Mr Morris, who opened the Sirromet Winery at Mt Cotton also owns both the daytime Carrara Markets site and The Fareground site on Gooding Drive and Market Street, adjacent to the Gooding Dr roundabout.
NightQuarter entrepreneurs Ms Christoe and Ian Van der Woude said it would be the largest night market in Australia and a major entertainment focal point during the Games.
It will cater for up to 4000 people, with 2000 car parking spaces.
“The space is being built around, and inspired by, a magnificent Moreton Bay fig tree,” Ms Christoe said.
“At 250 years-old, the tree pre-dates Captain Cook.
“The branch span is 40 metres and it is believed to be the largest Moreton Bay fig in the world.”
Expected to create more than 600 jobs once it opens, Ms Christoe said the fun and food mecca would have more than 70 semipermanent vendors, including 40 street food kitchens and more than 30 spaces for arts and crafts stalls.
“The FareGround will create these experiences, much in the same way as the hawker markets of Asia have been doing for centuries,” Ms Christoe said.
The venue will have an entertainment area for live music events for up to 750 people, dedicated space for street performers, buskers, circus acts and theatre performers and an amusement area for families, with rides and fairground games for kids, both young and old.
Ms Christoe said the carnivale-styled night market would draw inspiration from old-world fairgrounds and their carousels, pastel Ferris wheels and sideshow alleys.
“Into that world we are bringing chef-driven street kitchens, eclectic bars, circus performers, live music and a dynamic array of vendors,” she said.
The Brickworks Centre’s Ferry Road Market is out to make market-style dining stylish, following on from Brisbane’s James Street Markets.
Head of centre management Richard Griffiths said the Brickworks was owned by the same group that developed The James Street Markets and Gold Coasters should expect to see big changes in the next three to four years.
“At Brickworks, we aspire to emulate the same style and innovation of the James Street Precinct in Fortitude Valley, blended with our unique Gold Coast influence and a touch of California dreaming,” he said.
“We would love to see the centre evolve to include night offerings.”
Mr Griffiths said the Southport space on Ferry Road was a “tricky location”.
“James Street turned a commercial street into a precinct and we’re hoping to do the same … it’s a tricky location being in between all the car dealers,” he said.
Source: Gold Coast Bulletin 8 December 2016
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