It still is. We have lived here for 7 years and other than rain hoons and the occasional teen party in the neighbourhood the suburb is actually pretty great. With the new town centre and the weekly markets in the centre. Fresh produce and cool homewares are in close proximity.
Ever since the town square was done I feel Beenleigh has so much potential to be a trendy hipster town, waiting for Street are to happen here. Understated with a town square and quirky old buildings. I love the Main Street too. Walking around town is nice. I've also found our counsellor to be quite receptive to suggestions.
So if u have suggestions, just contact her like I did. I would suggest Beenleigh to anyone who wants to feel community spirit, and be willing to get involved in the community. We have lived here for almost a year and loving it, close to everything and has everything you need, private schools, shops doctors, restaraunts and plenty of gyms and coffee shops. Though before moving here all we heard was bad things, but now we are here we have found it to be nothing but positive.
I did my hairdressing apprenticeship here over 13 years ago and by golly this place has improved by a far, a lot safer and more class now. Easy and safe place to live,most essential services available Quick drive to Brisbane or Gold Coast Lots of work nearby. Beenleigh offers great transport options, including M1, rail , express rail and Bus travel to Bne and GC making your commute as easy as it can be. Many great parks and parklands including fenced dog parks and adventure parks for kids.
Wet lands for wild life viewing. Beenleigh also has many different cultural facilities including 2 local theatre groups , Orchestras, Choirs, Historical Village, Dance Troops, Opera in the cane fields and many different musical groups and festivals on throughout the year. We also have one of the last remaing local Show Grounds hosting a variety of yearly festivals and weekly markets.
Beenleigh is surrounded by many different superb educational facilities, including public, and private, Kindy, Prep, Primary, Special and High schools. Tafe, Griffith Uni and Logan Hospital are only 10 minutes away or a short train trip. What ever you need, we've got it, even, the last Drive in Theatre. Beenleigh is slowly growing into its potential as a Satalite City right smack in the midle of every thing.
With the Court House in the centre of town, Beenleigh is attracting Legal and Professional services to the area. The first few multi storey office buildings have arrived. You will find just about every finance institution, public service and Shopping requirement is met.
Smart investors are looking down the road and seeing what many of use see. A Thriving business Hub with great living options and options for raising a family. Every thing you need is here or very close by. Even if you crave the country air, that too is only 5minutes away. I and many of my neighbours find beenleigh to be a great place to work and live I have lived in Beenleigh for 5 years now and what a transformation if have seen.
The town and people are friendly with developments for shopping, community and child care really driving the community forward. I love the neighbourhood and the community spirit. It is a great place to raise a family or for singles looking to put their roots down and plan for the future. Beenleigh is certainly the place to be I've been living in Beenleigh for just over 9 years now, I moved here straight out of high school.
The job opportunities in Beenleigh and the surrounding areas is better than that of the inner city suburbs. After 4 years in retail I gained exceptional customer service skills and used them to land myself a career as a professional real estate agent.
Living in Beenleigh gave me these opportunities. I also have 3 children who have the best of everything including schools, sporting facilities and transport. I've never been to a place that has more opportunites for young people and fantastic facilities for our older generations as well.
Beenleigh has everything I need for life here and I only ever go out of town if I want to go to the beach, to the hyperdome shopping and I dont like shopping so not very often or into the city for a night out at the casino. Great area in terms of access to facilities. Still has a charm about it missing from many other suburbs. Sunday markets at the showground are good and Tambouine Mountain with all this area offers is only half an hour away.
Centrally located between Brisbane and the Gold Coast Beenleigh with access via Freeway west towards Esk and on the junction of the Mount Cotton Road for travel east Beenleigh is central to every major compass direction Great for working couples! I have lived here for 24 yrs. First built house in Herses Road, Eagleby. It was mainly bush ,so I have seen some big changes over the years.
The local restaurant "Serranos has the best mexican". Plenty to do at the Doug Larsen Park ,better known as the duck park, where you can enjoy a bbq or sit back ,relax and watch the kids play. Come live in Beenleigh it's the place to be. Have lived in Beenleigh for 5 years and while there has been a couple of hickups with noise from neighbors early on over the last couple of years things have really quietened up. There has allways been an enviable neighborhood spirit in Beenleigh with friendly locals on the whole.
Beenleigh enjoys a steady appreciation of house prices, no real boom but also no real busts either just a steady climb. Downsides are no night life but situated half hour to Gold coast or Brisbane that takes care of that.
Beenleigh became the centre of the Lutheran community when the Bethesda pastor purchased the Good Templars hall in , and the Beenleigh Lutherans also built a new church.
The town's population steadily increased, nearing when it was described in the Australian handbook in Beenleigh was on the South Coast railway , which carried milk and cream to factories at Kingston, Waterford and Woolloongabba.
Field crops and orchards included maize, potatoes, arrowroot, bananas and, of course, sugar. The small farm holdings, decline of the southern sugar industry and improved farm technology reduced the need for farm labour after World War I, and Beenleigh virtually stood still during the interwar years. By the late s, shire authorities considered arrowroot to be the area's most important crop. Around this time there was an upturn. Urbanisation of the coast south of Southport brought about the creation of South Coast Council Coolangatta to Southport in and the amalgamation of the remaining hinterland parts of the numerous shires into Albert Shire.
From about people in , Beenleigh recorded in Ten years later there were people. Schools included the original State primary, a Catholic primary , a State high and Trinity Catholic College The Catholic primary school St Joseph's was severely damaged by fire in Amid the growth, the only set back was the closure of the South Coast railway in so the line now terminated at Beenleigh, but the Pacific Motorway , bypassing Beenleigh to the east, seemed to compensate for what had been regarded at the time as an outdated country railway line.
In , car ownership increased and focus turned to road transport, both private and commercial. The railway between Beenleigh and the Gold Coast closed. Yatala suffered from this decision, with the closure of the hotel that Frank Chardon had built on high ground to replace the one washed away in the floods.
The old railway bridge was also assigned for removal in In , a new concrete bridge was built at Loganholme as part of the duplication of the highway. In the s, the tourism industry developed along with the urban sprawl. Both of these ventures were short-lived. They had plans to build an international Formula One race-track and other facilities, which never eventuated.
Continued growth in the region meant greater demand for public transport. The railway department maintained the line to Beenleigh, but removed the old track to the Gold Coast in to make way for roads on the rail reserve. The old timber railway bridge at Loganlea closed on 25 June , when the new concrete bridge opened. By , the State Government accepted a transportation study which recommended the redevelopment of a rail link between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Land resumptions started early in , but two years later they put the project on hold. Electrification of the railway to Beenleigh was completed in March During , a new line and bridge were built over the Logan River. The south coast line as far as Helensvale was completed on 17 April The headquarters for emergency services in the region remained in Beenleigh. A fire station, police station and ambulance centre were built between and In , with the help of bi-centennial funding, a new bridge was built at Loganholme.
Drivers still used the bridge and the old bridge was closed down. Motorway construction led to more bridge construction during In April , plans for the Pacific Motorway were announced after a change of government. The proposal included a new route south, with a tunnel under the Daisy Hill State Forest and a bridge over the Logan River between Carbrook and Alberton at the old ferry site. The tollway project did not go ahead. Plans for the upgraded Pacific Motorway were announced in April after a change of government.
The northern section of the motorway included duplicating the Logan Motorway. Construction began in late , and finished by September
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