Queen’s Wharf Brisbane is a city-shaping mixed-use precinct that redefines the relationship between commercial development, public life and subtropical urbanism. Located on one of Brisbane’s most significant riverfront sites, the project transforms a historically fragmented and underutilised edge of the CBD into a connected destination for living, staying, dining, shopping, entertainment, events and civic gathering.

Conceived as a globally significant destination that remains authentically Brisbane, the precinct brings together a diverse program within a single vertical urban framework. The $3.6B development includes 185,000sqm of integrated mixed-use GBA, three luxury hotel brands, approximately 850 hotel keys, residential apartments, retail, food and beverage, entertainment, event spaces, gaming, heritage buildings and more than 75,000sqm of public realm.

Sky Deck, Atrium, Brisbane Steps, Leisure Deck and Riverfront

Public space is the organising framework of Queen’s Wharf Brisbane. More than 75,000sqm of publicly accessible space is integrated across ground, podium and rooftop levels, equivalent to more than twelve football fields of public realm. This includes the Sky Deck, Brisbane Steps, Leisure Deck, river terraces, laneways, plazas, bridges and landscaped connections.

The Sky Deck is the precinct’s defining vertical public gesture. Positioned around 30 storeys above ground, it links the towers and creates approximately 3,500sqm of elevated public space with gardens, food and beverage, a glass-floor experience and panoramic 360-degree views across Brisbane.

These areas support everyday movement as well as markets, pop-ups, exhibitions, performances and public events. The result is a precinct where public life extends vertically as well as horizontally, connecting the CBD, South Bank, the river and the precinct’s internal destinations.

Early performance metrics demonstrate the strength of this public realm. The precinct has recorded 900,000 visitors per month, 5,200 Sky Deck visitors per day, 272 events in the first 10 months and 87,000 event guests.

Click to read further: Explore how Queen’s Wharf Brisbane turns public space into vertical civic infrastructure, from the Atrium and Brisbane Steps to the Sky Deck above the city.

These spaces encourage people to move through the precinct rather than simply arrive at a single destination.

Heritage also gives the retail experience a distinctive character. The project revitalises and opens significant heritage buildings to the public, allowing contemporary retail and hospitality uses to sit within Brisbane’s historic city fabric. This combination of old and new creates a finer grain of experience and reinforces the precinct’s identity as an authentically Brisbane destination.

Click to read further: Discover how retail is woven through laneways, heritage buildings, plazas and elevated spaces to create a destination shaped by movement and atmosphere.

The Sky Deck is activated with bars and restaurants, while riverfront dining helps draw visitors toward the water and encourages longer dwell time. Public areas such as laneways, terraces and plazas become animated by outdoor dining, creating a hospitality experience that is inseparable from the public realm.

Operationally, the hospitality offer is supported by major shared infrastructure. The precinct includes extensive consolidated back-of-house facilities, 20 loading bays, automated systems, 36,000sqm of total services area and 16,431sqm of consolidated back-of-house.

Click to read further: See how restaurants, bars and cafés activate the riverfront, laneways and Sky Deck while supporting Brisbane’s subtropical lifestyle.

The project includes a major ballroom and function space, with broader metrics identifying a 1,500-seat ballroom and 272 events held in the first 10 months of operation.

The Star Brisbane also benefits from the precinct’s shared infrastructure. Back-of-house, logistics, staff movement, waste and servicing are coordinated below and behind the public realm, allowing the precinct to maintain a generous civic experience while supporting complex operations at scale.

Click to read further: Learn how The Star Brisbane anchors the entertainment, events and hotel offer within a vertically integrated precinct.