Industrial property — Logan Corridor, Brisbane

The corridor

Why this corridor matters

Few industrial corridors in Australia occupy as structurally advantaged a position as Logan. Positioned squarely between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, the City of Logan is threaded by the Logan Motorway, the M1 Pacific Motorway and the Gateway Motorway Extension — a triangle of connections that lets an occupier reach Brisbane's CBD, the Port of Brisbane, Brisbane Airport and the Gold Coast's population base without leaving grade-separated motorway. That centrality is not an accident of geography alone; it has been reinforced for decades by council and state planning that has zoned and serviced land specifically to capture road-freight movement passing through the middle of the region.

The scale of activity underway is substantial. Logan's Gross Regional Product exceeded $18 billion in the year to June 2024, with more than 130,000 jobs located in the city, and Logan and neighbouring Ipswich are forecast to grow faster by percentage than any other council area in South-East Queensland over the next two decades. The city's employment base is already skewed toward the sectors that fill industrial sheds — manufacturing, construction, and transport, postal and warehousing all employ a meaingfully higher share of Logan's workforce than the SEQ average. Three Regional Economic Clusters run through the city, including the Pacific Motorway cluster and the Meadowbrook-Loganholme cluster, both of which touch the suburbs profiled here.

What distinguishes Logan from some of Brisbane's more tightly held inner precincts is that it still offers genuine scale for new development, while also carrying decades of established industrial depth. Crestmead alone is host to a nine-stage, $1.5 billion logistics estate on around 157 hectares — one of the largest single industrial projects ever undertaken in Queensland — while Berrinba's Wembley Business Park and South West 1 Enterprise Park have already drawn more than $240 million of investment from operators including DHL, CEVA Logistics, Mitre 10 and JB Hi-Fi. Alongside these master-planned precincts, older established hubs at Slacks Creek and Underwood provide showroom, bulky-goods and trade-services stock built up over generations, while Loganholme anchors the corridor's southern gateway to the Gold Coast.

For a permanent-hold owner, Logan's combination of centrality, motorway convergence and continuing development capacity is precisely the setting in which business-critical, single-tenant industrial assets earn their keep. Walter Taylor's approach here mirrors its approach across South-East Queensland: acquiring through sale-and-leaseback with established operators, funding purpose-built and build-to-suit development, and selectively acquiring assets to hold and actively manage for the long term — working alongside, not around, the commercial agents active in the corridor.