LOGAN Village has been re-imagined as a vibrant thriving river community shaped by its heritage.
Residents and community leaders gathered at the Logan Village Lions Community Hall to workshop ways to bring the sleepy community back to life.
About 120 people attended at the Logan Village Forum meetings and workshops to identify how the community, land owners, businesses, industry and government could unlock the economic and placemaking potential of the village, with more expected to attend an evening session.
Attendees included planners, local business owners and residents and officials including Logan mayor Luke Smith and councillors Laurie Koranski and Jon Raven.
Settled in 1860s, Logan Village was a trading outpost serviced first by river boat, then by rail. During World War Two, it was the military base Camp Cable, home to 20,000 United States soldiers. It hosted visits by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and American General Douglas MacArthur.
The emphasis is now on residential and farming communities with growth more recently focussed on Logan Village’s masterplanned neighbour Yarrabilba, which will one day house a population the size of Gladstone.
Stakeholders hope to find ways to rebuild the sleepy village as a thriving river community which makes the most of its links with rural lifestyle and links with times bygone.
Planning and development committee chairman Cr Russell Lutton said workshops held on Wednesday would get ideas that could be used in future planning and budgeting.
“Eighty people might have 80 ideas but the idea is to give people their say and get them all up there on the board,” he said.
A second session commences this afternoon at 5pm.
