State premier Anna Bligh has announced plans to build a 10-hectare residential and commercial precinct in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba.
Go Print has been housed at a 4,500sqm site near the iconic ‘Gabba cricket ground since 1983, but will now have to make way for ambitious plans.
The company employs 60 staff and operates a combination of digital, finishing and offset equipment, including a KBA Rapida 105 press, which was installed in 2007.
A spokesperson from the Department of Public Works (DPW) told ProPrint that “no plans have been developed as to where Go Print will be relocated, nor the required timeframes or what equipment profile will be required”.
The printer may be forced to move quickly, as the Urban Land Development Authority will officially take control of the site next April.
The DPW said that it would “stay in close contact with staff and unions to ensure they are kept informed” during this process.
Go Print was established in 1862 as the Government Printing Office. After moving from its original site in the Brisbane CBD in 1983, the printer was renamed Go Print and became a commercialised business unit in 1991.
The DPW said that “since this time the building space requirements, staff numbers and equipment profile has continued to reduce”. A national news report claimed the business would move to a smaller site that has not yet been selected.
Go Print works for local and state government agencies and not-for-profit organisations. It claims to have been the first printer in Queensland to gain ISO14001.
Bligh said the Woolloongabba development would create an “inner-city community of residential, retail, commercial, employment, recreation and community facilities”.
“This Gabba precinct will become an iconic area of our city and a place where visitors from all over the world will gather after the cricket or a Lions game.”
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