Industrial property in Swanbank, Brisbane — lease, sale & leaseback and build-to-suit

Local context

Why Swanbank is strategic

Swanbank's identity has always been tied to energy. For decades the site hosted the Swanbank Power Station, which by the mid-2000s comprised the larger, highly efficient gas-fired Swanbank E unit alongside the smaller Swanbank C plant, following an earlier era of coal-fired generation. That energy heritage has not disappeared — it has evolved. Swanbank E continues to operate, and the site now also hosts a large-scale grid battery, with construction of a 250 MW / 500 MWh battery beginning in 2024 and reaching commissioning in 2026, taking advantage of a grid connection capacity of up to 1.2 gigawatts that few other Queensland industrial sites can match.

Around that energy core, Swanbank has developed into a genuinely diversified enterprise-park landscape spanning roughly 18.8 square kilometres of predominantly industrial land, organised across five precincts. The New-Gen Business Park is anchored by Suntory Oceania's roughly $400 million beverage manufacturing facility, which opened on a 17-hectare site in mid-2025 and produces and packages drinks across a 40-brand portfolio; the same precinct hosts Boral, Humes, Veolia, Remondis and, more recently, Independent Liquor Group. Separately, BrisWest is a newer freehold industrial estate of more than 130 hectares being developed on former mine land at Swanbank's northern tip, between Redbank Plains Road, the Cunningham Highway and the Swanbank rail siding.

Swanbank also carries a significant, clearly delineated waste and resource-recovery precinct. Operators including Remondis and NuGrow run large-scale processing operations — enclosed composting, construction and demolition rubble crushing and reuse, and landfill-gas capture that generates enough electricity for thousands of homes — handling several hundred thousand tonnes of material each year. This is a deliberately managed, long-established use for the precinct, sited to keep heavier processing activity separated from the newer manufacturing and business-park precincts nearby, and it forms a genuine part of the region's circular-economy infrastructure.

For occupiers and owners, Swanbank's appeal rests on the scale and diversity of an established energy and industrial precinct with genuine room still to grow — BrisWest and the planned South Enterprise Park both point to further release of large-format industrial land. Direct Cunningham Highway access connects the precinct to the wider Ipswich Motorway network and, beyond it, to the Warrego Highway corridor toward Toowoomba and Inland Rail, while the Swanbank rail siding retains a freight-rail option that few comparable Queensland enterprise parks offer.

Typical asset types here

Large-format manufacturing facilities (such as Suntory's beverage plant), freehold industrial land at scale (BrisWest), energy-generation and grid-battery infrastructure, and waste-and-resource-recovery processing facilities. Swanbank suits occupiers with substantial land, power or processing requirements rather than small-format strata users.

What drives demand

• A grid connection capacity of up to 1.2 gigawatts, supporting power-intensive manufacturing and energy-generation uses.
• Direct Cunningham Highway access linking to the Ipswich Motorway network and the Warrego Highway corridor.
• Large-format freehold industrial land still being released, notably the 130-plus-hectare BrisWest estate.
• An established, purpose-managed waste and resource-recovery precinct supporting circular-economy and utility occupiers.
• Proven major manufacturing investment, evidenced by Suntory's roughly $400 million beverage facility.