Can’t be bothered cooking dinner? Emporium Hotel executive chef Josue Lopez can whip up a masterpiece to be delivered to your door. That’s just one of the perks available to residents at the $600 million mixed-use Southpoint development in South Bank. Once completed, the project, which is being developed by Anthony John Group, will comprise residential apartments over 21 levels, the Emporium Apartments and the Emporium Residences, the city’s second Emporium Hotel, office space, and a retail and dining plaza. The integration of the 143-suite hotel and 222 apartments will open up hotel-style services to full-time residents and will include everything from in-room service to concierge, valet and housekeeping

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After much anticipation, Anthony John Group is proud to announce the first of many exciting retailers that will call Southpoint home when operations commence in February 2017.

Located over two levels, Southpoint’s 4,500sqm retail and dining precinct will sit directly under Flight Centre’s new global headquarters and offer a mix of casual and formal dining along with fresh food and convenience to South Bank’s burgeoning tourist, worker and resident populations.

Anthony John Group Managing Director Tony John said that Southpoint will provide a complimentary mix of retail to South Bank’s current offering in a singular location.

“We are creating a village style atmosphere that supports an upmarket destination appeal with a balanced blend of neighbourhood services and food in one central location.”   

Anthony John Group's Emporium Hotel has received another outstanding accolade, being named Australia's Leading Boutique Hotel at the 2015 World Travel Awards.

Established in 1993, the awards acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry and are recognised globally as the ultimate hallmark of quality, with winners setting the benchmark to which all others aspire.

The annual programme is renowned as the most prestigious and comprehensive in the travel and tourism industry.

Congratulations to the team on yet another milestone achievement that continues to highlight their exceptional dedication to delivering customers exquisite stays.

Once again Anthony John Group's Emporium Hotel has proven its timeless appeal and outstanding commitment to service, winning Best Boutique Hotel at the 2015 Hotel Management Awards.

Despite notable competition from around the country, Emporium continues to cement its position as a leader in delivering customers exquisite stays.

Congratulations to the team on another fantastic achievement.

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When workers are inducted into the new Flight Centre Brisbane head office, they might be ­surprised to find their new multi-­million-dollar digs include slippery slides linking the executive levels, the shell of a plane and a double-decker bus as meeting rooms. 

But leisure and travel retailer Flight Centre’s unusual working arrangements are not standard, eschewing the standard managerial structure for competing teams of “families”, “tribes” and “villages”.

The challenge was making this corporate character fit into an ­office floorplan for Flight Centre’s new global headquarters, and PDT Architects’ Annie Yang was more than happy to oblige.

The end result of the $25 million 15-storey fitout will be a grab-bag of mock hotel lobbies, planes, trains and automobiles and movable office spaces.

“It’s a bit unique, typical offices are not like that,” Ms Yang said.

“This was quite exciting. We’ve got a slide on the executive floors, the top six floors, we have slides connecting those floors. It’s not every day we get that type of brief from a client.”

Flight Centre’s new headquarters will be located within the commercial tower of Anthony John Group’s $590m Southpoint complex at Brisbane’s Southbank.

The travel company wanted to bring its diverse brands together under the one roof, and will ­vacate their current tenancies in Brisbane’s CBD to move their 2000 staff to the 23,000sq m new offices. The staff may not know what will hit them. Offices based around Flight Centre’s ethos of “family” teams of three to eight employees will work around the perimeter of the layout, with meeting rooms and other communal facilities such as the “firepit” clustered in the middle.

“Within each family they have their own war cries, and they have targets, it’s quite competitive,” Ms Yang said.

“Within the design of each work station we’ve allowed (staff) to personalise each area.” So across each of the levels there is a different focal point, ­tailored to the product each team is tasked with selling.

“Because it was 15 floors we ­decided to do things a bit differently,” Ms Yang said. “Every floor would be themed specifically to the items they actually sell.”

Hence, the bus, the plane and different mock hotel lobbies of varying star ratings as the meeting rooms for different levels who work with each product item.

Flight Centre has signed up to move into Southpoint from the middle of next year.

In doing so, they join Brisbane’s “flight to quality”, away from the central business district, deepening the city’s serious office vacancy problem.

They will move from GPT’s 545 Queen St and MRL Investments’ 316 Adelaide Street on the expiration of their leases.

Southpoint is one of the ­biggest mixed-use transit-orientated developments in Queensland, located in the busy hub of South Bank. Southpoint will also feature a hotel and restaurants as well as apartments.

Source: The Australian, Thursday 25th June 2015

Author: Rosanne Barrett 

Meet Mr Graham Hodgson – the keeper of secrets, the all-knowing, the magician, the problem solver, the go-to man and the face of Brisbane’s award-winning Emporium Hotel. He is Head Concierge and as of this week, the newest member of the exclusive Les Clefs d’Or Australia, one of the highest accolades for a professional Concierge.  

Arts Review - 16th October 2017

One of Australia’s largest public art installations is nearing completion. Titled Sun Veil, the $4.35m kinetic screen by internationally acclaimed environmental artist Ned Kahn was commissioned by private Brisbane developer Anthony John Group to wrap the lower levels of the three towers in their $600m Southpoint development in South Bank.

The design and installation project has been some 10 years in development and measures over 3,800sqm. To date, two of the three kinetic screens have been installed, with the third to wrap the final tower which will comprise residential apartments and the new flagship Emporium Hotel.

Published in The Australian, Thursday 16/2/17

Anthony John Group’s $600 million Southpoint development in Brisbane has completed another milestone with the opening of its retail and dining complex.

Anchor tenant Woolworths opened last week in the 5000sq m Grey Street retail precinct and specialty outlets — including Neil Perry’s Burger Project, Mrs Luu’s, Pour Boy and Artisan Bakery — will open tomorrow. The openings mark another milestone in the eight-year development process of the triple-tower, mixed-use precinct on what was billed as the “last piece of Southbank”. 

Anthony John Group chief executive Shane Bulloch told The Australian the huge development was “coming to fruition” after a long process of planning and construction. Apartment sales in the development launched in 2013.

Mr Bulloch said Collins Place, the striking heritage building at the centre of the 3800sq m development, attracted strong interest from potential operators. It will be the new home of a fresh offering from celebrity chef Matt Moran.

Anthony john Group's $600million Southpoint development in Brisbane's South Bank has now sold all 196 dwellings in its final release residential stage, The Apartments .

The Apartments are now the second stage of this iconic developement to reach sell-out over a year from completion.

Anthony John Group Managing Director Tony John said over 70 per cent of purchasers in Southpoint have been local, believing that the development’s ‘exceptional qualities’ has helped bolster local confidence.

“On the last piece of private land to be developed in South Bank, in one of Australia’s best lifestyle precincts, Southpoint offers its residents stunning apartments, spectacular views and unparalleled access to transport and convenience,” he said.  

It is with great pleasure we announce that the Emporium Hotel's Assistant Concierge Paul McLean, has just been admitted to the most prestigious global Concierge Society, Les Clefs d’Or (The Golden Keys).

There are only 44 members of Les Clefs d’Or in Australia and Paul is now the fourth new member our Emporium Hotel has produced since opening in 2007.

"This is such an impressive international recognition of his dedication to meeting each and every guest's needs, no matter how insignificant they may seem" said Emporium Hotel General Manager Peter Savoff.

An outstanding testament to the hotel teams commitment to excellence, the same excellence that will be evidenced at Brisbane's second Emporium Hotel at South Bank upon completion of the $600 million Southpoint development.

Anthony John Group has unveiled retail precinct plans for its $600 million mixed-use development at Southbank which is set to be delivered in time for the completion of Flight Centre’s global headquarters in mid-2016.

A total of 4,500 sqm will be offered over two levels, including a mixture of fresh food, dining and boutique retail options, catering to South Bank’s rapidly increasing worker, resident, visitor and commuter segments.

Anchor tenant Woolworths has already been secured with a 1200 sqm 20-year lease, giving South Bank its first major supermarket.

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Another fantastic achievement for the Emporium Hotel and the very dedicated team behind it, having been announced a finalist at the 2015 Hotel Management Awards in both the Boutique Hotel and Hotel Bar categories.

In an increasingly competitive market, the Emporium Hotel continues to stand out for its exquisite stays.

An independently owned and operated luxury hotel, the Emporium continues to be one one defined by a very directional design and commitment to service excellence so as to continue delighting its customers.

In the words of a recent traveller "my wife and I have stayed many times, but I have stayed at the hotel on my own more that 10 times according to the hotel! So last week there was a personal note from the General Manager & a nice bottle of red wine. This is the sort of nice touch that makes this hotel stand out from any many others and is why I will continue to stay here."

A fitting review for Queensland Tourism's latest Hall of Fame inductee.

The site, called The Boulevard, has been progressively amalgamated and developed to create the ultimate platform for a Transport Orientated Development – a mixed-use residential and commercial area designed to maximise access to public transport.

Buranda Train Station and Express busway directly bound the site, and the M1 and Pacific Motorway entrance is within 500 meters.

CBRE’s Flint Davidson, Darren Collins and Mike Walsh have been appointed as exclusive agents by Anthony John Group, who is selling the site as a strategic business decision in order to focus on existing Brisbane projects, including the landmark Southpoint development and the East Village.  

In one of Brisbane’s largest property deals, Anthony John Group has sold its Southpoint commercial offering to German property investor Union Investment Real Estate.