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The Gabba’s days are numbered. That’s not entirely new.
But this morning Premier David Crisafulli has revealed his vision for the historic, albeit doomed, oval.
ABC Radio host Steve Austin asked the premier: “What happens to the Gabba itself after the Olympics have finished?”
Crisafulli replied: “It gets knocked down.”
In 2018, the Stadium Taskforce Report found the Gabba was a ‘tired’ venue that would come to the end of its useful life by 2030.Credit: Adobe Stock
But the premier said he hopes the Gabba will be farewelled by a gold-medal-winning Australian Olympic cricket team, before it is razed.
“Now cricket’s been confirmed for LA, [it] hasn’t been confirmed yet for us, but we’re pretty confident it will be,” he said.
“I would love the Gabba’s swan song to be Australia winning a gold medal there.”
Crisafulli said he expected the Gabba would be bulldozed to make way for an urban renewal site with “quality” commercial and residential development that would compliment a new indoor arena to be built on the neighbouring, old GoPrint site and the new Gross River Rail station.
“Because with Cross River rail, without the Gabba, you’ve got a really important piece of infrastructure that otherwise won’t get the use it needs,” he said.
The future of East Brisbane State School, which sits beside the stadium, is not clear in the event the Gabba is torn down.
