Stockland Baringa Shopping Centre

Stockland Baringa is located in one of the largest master planned communities under single ownership in Australia, Stockland Aura. The neighbourhood centre responds to the urban framework anchoring Aura – “liveability” and “community”.
The design introduces a dynamic hub and social asset for retail, convenience, and medical services and is a catalyst for the regions’ future retail hubs.

As the first district hub for the Aura regional city centre, Baringa Stockland needed to provide a key place for the community to access convenience retail, medical services and entertainment. Our design team have worked collaboratively with Stockland to establish a retail character for the region, with the centre acting as a catalyst for future retail precincts as the master planned community develops over the next 20 years.

The two-storey centre incorporates 4,000sqm of retail and commercial area, anchored by a full line IGA supermarket, Stockland’s Sunshine Coast workplace, retail specialties tenancies, carparking and external landscape areas. Stage 2 of the precinct also delivers a swim school and medical precinct to the established centre.

“The addition of the first town centre at Aura demonstrates the value of Stockland’s diversified business. We know the key to a thriving new community is not just a well-designed masterplan, but the early delivery of key infrastructure. The opening of this centre puts us one step closer to delivering Australia’s most prosperous and connected master planned community.”

- Adrian Allen | Regional Manager - Sunshine Coast, Stockland

Baringa’s success is delivered through a considered response to the overall site master plan and urban framework. The design resolves many of the site and town planning constraints by turning the centre ‘inside out’. Retail and commercial aspects are addressed to the boundary of the site in a traditional high street form, with key activity nodes for dining and recreation positioned at clearly identifiable intersections across the 2.2-hectare site that lead into the established town square.

At its core, the design responds to the Aura’s urban framework for ‘liveability’ and ‘community’, establishing a social and lifestyle asset for Caloundra. The site planning creates a decentralised hub, with activation across the site, expanding the town square and connecting the retail precinct to other complementary functions within its immediate vicinity, including the primary school, community centre, childcare centre, commercial development, medical precinct, and tavern.

Location

Baringa, QLD

Client

Stockland

Land Custodians

Kabi Kabi peoples and the Jinibara peoples

Status

Completed (2019)

Scale

8,540 sqm NLA - Retail, Dining & Commercial

Services

Architecture
Interior Design
Masterplanning
Visualisations & 3D Rendering

Awards

Finalist – Retail Development of the Year, The Urban Developer (2020)
Project of the Year - Sunshine Coast, Queensland Master Builders Association (2020)
Sunshine Coast Retail Facility over $5M, Queensland Master Builders Association (2020)

Builder

Hutchinson Builders

Tenant

IGA Supermarket

Engineers

STP Consultants
PDD
Cardno
MPN Consulting

Visualisations

Cottee Parker

Photographer

Cottee Parker
Aj Moller

Stockland Baringa Shopping Centre

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