Growing uncertainty over the Sunshine Coast's flagship basketball stadium has been pounced upon by the Gold Coast, which says it is ready to host more Olympic events.
The Gold Coast has offered to host more Olympic events if Sunshine Coast stadiums are not built or upgraded.The Gold Coast is poised to poach more Olympic events if cost blowouts plaguing the Sunshine Coast's stadiums force a venue rethink.
However, the new Queensland government recently revealed costs for the two stadiums had jumped from $290 million to $410 million. Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has long expressed concern about the indoor stadium's location because it would displace the Kawana Dolphins Rugby League Club."The original proposal was for the Sunshine Coast indoor centre to be in Maroochydore, which I supported at the time.""Council has already started looking at … the scale of these projects to deliver them within budget because we committed the $7.1 billion budget … and it's not changing," he said.
Mr Jamieson, who lobbied for the Olympics to come to south-east Queensland, said it would be "dreadful" if the Sunshine Coast lost stadium investment following the government's 100-day review."You can't keep going back and making new decisions on top of old decisions … you've just got to get on with it," he said.Sunshine Coast Council Mayor Rosanna Natoli said the indoor centre was "not about the Olympic Games".
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