Located halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast

Yatala Enterprise Area (YEA)

The Yatala Enterprise Area (YEA) is the largest zoned industrial land area in the Gold Coast and the city’s leading industrial precinct.

The YEA is strategically located less than 40 kilometres north of the Gold Coast CBD and 40kms south of Brisbane CBD, and is only a 30 minute drive to the Port of Brisbane and the Brisbane International Airport.

The YEA is a value-adding manufacturing region with businesses in food and beverage, construction materials, machinery and equipment, plastic and chemicals as well as warehousing, transport and distribution.

The YEA offers a range of lot sizes (including lots larger than 10,000m2) for low, medium and high impact industry opportunities, with a range of greenfield and brownfield sites to allow for a range of purpose built uses.

The YEA Opportunity

Manufacturing of health and medical products are growing within the region. This is supported by a growing skills base, strong growth in industry, advances in research and opportunities for collaboration between the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct and Griffith University Medical School.

Opportunities also exist in sectors such as warehousing, freight and logistics, high technology manufacturing and mining and construction. A number of quarries are situated in the precinct which provides key resources for the extractive industries and other co-located industries including marine and motorsport.

The YEA accommodates a range of large industrial facilities including Carlton United Brewery, Visy and PWR, as well as a number of industrial parks, such as the Empire Industrial Estate which accommodates the 60,000m2 Caterpillar parts distribution centre.

HIGHWAY
ACCESS TO PORT
OF BRISBANE,
BRISBANE CBD AND
GOLD COAST CBD

CAPACITY FOR
40,000
WORKERS

4000+
MANUFACTURING
JOBS
WORKERS

SHORT TERM DEMAND DRIVERS

  • Increasing rate of population growth Improving worldwide economic conditions Declining value of the AUD
  • Short term recovery of the boat building sector in response to improving demand conditions
  • Increasing residential and non-residential constructions
    Ongoing resource sector investment

MEDIUM TERM DEMAND DRIVERS

  • Sustained population and construction growth
  • Improving supply chain conditions for freight and logistics (predominantly road transport related)
  • Specific sectoral impacts likely to start influencing growth opportunities (i.e. traffic impacts will influence road transport growth)
  • New business attraction and support from catalyst infrastructure such as Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct
  • Less demand from resource sector investment
  • Less demand from creative and innovative businesses

LONG TERM DEMAND DRIVERS

  • Sustained population and construction growth
  • Critical mass of population will trigger demand and opportunity across some sectors (i.e. food manufacturing)
  • Increased retention of skilled graduates on the Gold Coast assuming an increase in skilled employment opportunities across new sectors (i.e. health and knowledge, skilled manufacturing, research and development)
  • Transfer of skills to new industrial businesses and activities