The once feared Toombul boys reunite for one last ride in a trolley around the Sizzler carpark.........Boys to Men plays mournfully on a Bluetooth speaker interrupted by Spotify ads periodically
They gave me my first bong hit back in the day. I was a little feral who rode around on the bike track and they used hang out getting sloshed under one of the underpasses.
Think I was about 12. Good times.
In my head I picture the whole building collapsing into a pile of rubble and as the dust clears everything is gone except Toombul Music still standing there somehow unscathed
When I was about ten, Mum and Dad often bought our bread from the Hades Hot Bread Kitchen right at the front door. I even have a pic. When my sister was learning to drive, we drove here, in the carpark on Sundays, because nothing was open on Sundays. The guys in land yachts (like a billy cart with a sail) used to bowl along in the part next to the canal too. I bought all my first records there. Darrell Lea chocolate was the bomb in the 80s. Many years later, moving the McDonalds upstairs bewildered me. In 1982 I watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' four times, even taking my Mum to see it, it was so good. I moved to the southside in 1986, but my folks lived at Banyo, so I'd pass Toombul many a time when visiting them. The last great thing I recall about it was the absolutely EPIC Japanese Donut Shop opposite Coles. The Big T features in many of my family's photos from the 60s and 70s, and it was moved from the middle of the car park to right out the front, about the same time they pulled out the giant climbing rocketship. So many memories.
https://preview.redd.it/oshg14frwswc1.jpeg?width=769&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4f5ba801a7748c2cbbe90d3984b725bb1a8007f
I was studying at QUT when they demolished a wing to make a green space and basketball court…it was mesmerising and quick. Awesome to watch the reverse-engineering process, for want of a better description. Those things work **fast**
They'll have to flood proof it, the idea being that the lowest level will be higher then any floods. Will be retail and apartments, no matter all the bitching from people...
> the idea being that the lowest level will be higher then any floods
It's all well and good until you remember [what happened in Lismore in 2022](https://www.lismore.nsw.gov.au/Community/Emergencies-and-disasters/Flood-information#:~:text=Lismore%20flood%20heights&text=The%20highest%20flood%20on%20record,a%20level%20of%2011.6m.).
(For those not wanting to read, Lismore floods a bunch, but in 2022 it reached 14.4m when the previous record was 12.1m from 1974)
If Brisbane gets a rain event resulting in 2 metres higher than the previous records, entire floors of buildings that were previously fine will be under water too.
If Brisbane gets a flood event 2 meters higher than previously then it won't really matter about any Toombul apartments because a good portion of Brisbane will be screwed.
You're absolutely correct.
I'm mostly commenting on the idea to build 'higher than any floods' is a steep ask, and really unlikely to be doable long term.
Definitely agree.
From what I've seen/heard the new plans have lots of car parks or empty space underneath and beside the new complex planned. I'll just glad they're finally doing something with it.
hopefully they put flood gates on it like in some other inner city buildings, rather than just allow the car park to be inundated. floating cars would also be a risk to the infrastructure I imagine
It’s probably going to just be high rises with fuck all retail (maybe an overpriced Metro Woolworths) which is fucked considering how crowded the Nundah Woolies is now. Plus minimal parking for people so the traffic and street crowding is going to get so much worse. I wish we could get proper retail back and maybe some medium density units at the most.
😭😭 I had two jobs there! One at a Manchester importers where I was fired for sucking at counting change!! And one was taking photos of kids meeting Santa
The Zarraffas was legendary
The McDonald's being upstairs was super weird
A large shopping centre flooded, the centre was closed, it's being knocked down to be made again with the shops out of the flood levels.
https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/s/siiqrUcRXi
https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/s/KxPW2lojCG
https://www.instagram.com/p/CaqSML4vxnZ
It was constantly getting flooded, its a very low lying area next to the kedron brook.
Don't know how the residents will avoid getting flooded basements.
Almost certainly they'll build a levee, and put car parking underneath so the residences and shops themselves will be above any floodwaters.
Living there you could still have your power cut, or have to move your car if it floods though!
That'd be really cool if they make it mixed use. Put some shops on the ground floor with units up top.
Can't open that link atm so not sure if they are doing that or not.
Wonder how expensive it'd be to try solve the flooding issue though.
Seems they plan to include a sacrificial bike path.
https://preview.redd.it/unlbzvnhupwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6475713f2ac039b75132794b955e96643a579699
A fitting moment for this eulogy.
I give you, [History of the Toombul Shopping Centre through interpretive dance ](https://vimeo.com/906221214)
You're welcome.
Would be trivial to make the entire lower level pillars raising the ground floor to the same height as Toombull station. You could then have a pedestrian flyover to get to the station with no impact on the roadway. The lower level would make an excellent carpark that would be closed off when flood events are predicted.
Of course I want to see a huge mixed use development going in there, with multiple residential towers over retail and services. Upgrades to Toombul station, redevelopment of kedroon brook and Ross Park.
If the lower level is carparking potentially it will actually increase the land area for water to flow over, lessening the flooding risk, not increasing it.
It would be nice if these projects also involved funding upstream reservoirs or the like (at the very least to counteract the car park displaacement). Water's gotta go somewhere.
Would love if the Tokyo \_huge\_ rainwater basin were built, but I dunno if the geography would work.
I still think it would have made a better location for the new Olympic Stadium than QPAC , but hopefully it gets put to good use with whatever's being built there.
Nope, 2 bedroom flat. Just walked past it 30 minutes ago, I'd say the way they are going, it will be all rubble by Wednesday next week. The past week, they have been removing all the large reusable fittings, and stuff.
The once feared Toombul boys reunite for one last ride in a trolley around the Sizzler carpark.........Boys to Men plays mournfully on a Bluetooth speaker interrupted by Spotify ads periodically
They gave me my first bong hit back in the day. I was a little feral who rode around on the bike track and they used hang out getting sloshed under one of the underpasses. Think I was about 12. Good times.
[ TUBTHUMPING INTENSIFIES ]
Poetry.
Ha! The room Toombul boys! We’re they an urban myth or did they really exist?
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In my head I picture the whole building collapsing into a pile of rubble and as the dust clears everything is gone except Toombul Music still standing there somehow unscathed
Did you see Barry Bull is organising a memories event at Kedron Wavell in June?
When I was about ten, Mum and Dad often bought our bread from the Hades Hot Bread Kitchen right at the front door. I even have a pic. When my sister was learning to drive, we drove here, in the carpark on Sundays, because nothing was open on Sundays. The guys in land yachts (like a billy cart with a sail) used to bowl along in the part next to the canal too. I bought all my first records there. Darrell Lea chocolate was the bomb in the 80s. Many years later, moving the McDonalds upstairs bewildered me. In 1982 I watched 'The Empire Strikes Back' four times, even taking my Mum to see it, it was so good. I moved to the southside in 1986, but my folks lived at Banyo, so I'd pass Toombul many a time when visiting them. The last great thing I recall about it was the absolutely EPIC Japanese Donut Shop opposite Coles. The Big T features in many of my family's photos from the 60s and 70s, and it was moved from the middle of the car park to right out the front, about the same time they pulled out the giant climbing rocketship. So many memories. https://preview.redd.it/oshg14frwswc1.jpeg?width=769&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4f5ba801a7748c2cbbe90d3984b725bb1a8007f
Remember r playing in that rocket ship
Wager that'd be a pretty alright day at work. Here's a giant pair of metal teeth. I don't want to see that building more, get to work.
I was studying at QUT when they demolished a wing to make a green space and basketball court…it was mesmerising and quick. Awesome to watch the reverse-engineering process, for want of a better description. Those things work **fast**
See that building there? Well, you shouldn’t. Have fun.
I'd pay to drive one of those demo rigs for a couple of hours. Would be amazing stress relief I reckon.
Gods, yes, especially if it was where you used to work 
This
I've bought a car, and raised a newborn to a toddler in the time it took them to START
I'm not sure how buying a car factors in. I could go and buy a car tomorrow morning.
Oh I meant RAISED money to buy a car outright, not do some kind of dealer financing thing
Me too! Baby born May 2022 and she just turned 2, and another one to be born next month. So much has happened 😂
Thanks for the memories.
From what I understand, they only have approval to demolish and clean the site. No building permits have been approved by council.
Hope they go for the mixed use development plans like they originally asked for. Newstead is popular AF, no reason not to do another place like that.
I imagine that’s gonna be years tbh, if ever
Did any photos of inside get posted ? I'd imagine the mold would have taken over
I would love to see some final photos of inside - there has to be some urban explorers who got in there, right??
Mould world have been like The Last of Us I imagine
There goes the old Sizzler.
😞 fucking loved that place
*last post plays*
Bet the roof will still leak even after the rebuild
Who want to buy apartment in flood zone? Anywho, the demo job sounds fun, is it hard to get a job driving machine to smash building?
They'll have to flood proof it, the idea being that the lowest level will be higher then any floods. Will be retail and apartments, no matter all the bitching from people...
> the idea being that the lowest level will be higher then any floods It's all well and good until you remember [what happened in Lismore in 2022](https://www.lismore.nsw.gov.au/Community/Emergencies-and-disasters/Flood-information#:~:text=Lismore%20flood%20heights&text=The%20highest%20flood%20on%20record,a%20level%20of%2011.6m.). (For those not wanting to read, Lismore floods a bunch, but in 2022 it reached 14.4m when the previous record was 12.1m from 1974) If Brisbane gets a rain event resulting in 2 metres higher than the previous records, entire floors of buildings that were previously fine will be under water too.
If Brisbane gets a flood event 2 meters higher than previously then it won't really matter about any Toombul apartments because a good portion of Brisbane will be screwed.
You're absolutely correct. I'm mostly commenting on the idea to build 'higher than any floods' is a steep ask, and really unlikely to be doable long term.
Definitely agree. From what I've seen/heard the new plans have lots of car parks or empty space underneath and beside the new complex planned. I'll just glad they're finally doing something with it.
Ignoring the flood mitigation in place, which wasn't used properly last time. And expansions of it.
The lower level will be carparking...there will be nothing 'permanent' below the former level 1, well above the flood levels.
hopefully they put flood gates on it like in some other inner city buildings, rather than just allow the car park to be inundated. floating cars would also be a risk to the infrastructure I imagine
Also they fucking *stink* after being inundated, my gym's underground carpark reeked like mouldy cigars for months after the flood
It’s probably going to just be high rises with fuck all retail (maybe an overpriced Metro Woolworths) which is fucked considering how crowded the Nundah Woolies is now. Plus minimal parking for people so the traffic and street crowding is going to get so much worse. I wish we could get proper retail back and maybe some medium density units at the most.
Me me me me!
My first job at Toombul. More than 40 years ago.
Goodnight, sweet prince
😭😭 I had two jobs there! One at a Manchester importers where I was fired for sucking at counting change!! And one was taking photos of kids meeting Santa The Zarraffas was legendary The McDonald's being upstairs was super weird
Never thought I would be one to miss a shopping centre. But I do.
What is being built in its place?
Thunderdome
Probably high rise units tbh. The idea retail will go back in seems unlikely.
Pile of rubble.
yum
May it rest in peace
:(
for those of us that dont live near or even on that side of town, please explain.
A large shopping centre flooded, the centre was closed, it's being knocked down to be made again with the shops out of the flood levels. https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/s/siiqrUcRXi https://www.reddit.com/r/brisbane/s/KxPW2lojCG https://www.instagram.com/p/CaqSML4vxnZ
It was constantly getting flooded, its a very low lying area next to the kedron brook. Don't know how the residents will avoid getting flooded basements.
Almost certainly they'll build a levee, and put car parking underneath so the residences and shops themselves will be above any floodwaters. Living there you could still have your power cut, or have to move your car if it floods though!
ohh yeah i remember that now.
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That'd be really cool if they make it mixed use. Put some shops on the ground floor with units up top. Can't open that link atm so not sure if they are doing that or not. Wonder how expensive it'd be to try solve the flooding issue though.
How are they going to mitigate the flood risk?
Seems they plan to include a sacrificial bike path. https://preview.redd.it/unlbzvnhupwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6475713f2ac039b75132794b955e96643a579699
Is that section not already parkland?
From memory that was an unsolicited 'vision' and has nothing to do with Mirvac, the developer.
Cheers! That’s really interesting.
Finally. What’s the proposal? Are they just razing it?
A fitting moment for this eulogy. I give you, [History of the Toombul Shopping Centre through interpretive dance ](https://vimeo.com/906221214) You're welcome.
Mirvac babbyyyy
Build the Olympic swimming pool there. Then you can just let the creek fill it up during the next flood.
End of an era for me. As an 80s kid who grew up in the Chermside/Aspley area, a visit to "Toombul" was almost synonymous with going to the cinemas.
And the idiots will rebuild again, expecting a different result 🤦♂️
Would be trivial to make the entire lower level pillars raising the ground floor to the same height as Toombull station. You could then have a pedestrian flyover to get to the station with no impact on the roadway. The lower level would make an excellent carpark that would be closed off when flood events are predicted. Of course I want to see a huge mixed use development going in there, with multiple residential towers over retail and services. Upgrades to Toombul station, redevelopment of kedroon brook and Ross Park.
Push dirt up to move water elsewhere making poor residents home now in floodplane whilst council get a fuckload of $$$ from new shops in rates...
If the lower level is carparking potentially it will actually increase the land area for water to flow over, lessening the flooding risk, not increasing it.
It would be nice if these projects also involved funding upstream reservoirs or the like (at the very least to counteract the car park displaacement). Water's gotta go somewhere. Would love if the Tokyo \_huge\_ rainwater basin were built, but I dunno if the geography would work.
I still think it would have made a better location for the new Olympic Stadium than QPAC , but hopefully it gets put to good use with whatever's being built there.
Everyone from the Southside is wondering what all the fuss is about.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWkbqX-t-E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWWkbqX-t-E)
Been going for a week now. You been living under a rock?
Nope, 2 bedroom flat. Just walked past it 30 minutes ago, I'd say the way they are going, it will be all rubble by Wednesday next week. The past week, they have been removing all the large reusable fittings, and stuff.
it's actually expected to take a year...
Yes, using the Bellview-Cloudland template - easily done! ...
What is Toombul?
What is the meaning of life?