Australia’s Treasury Brisbane to Close Forever on Sunday

The Australian city of Brisbane is set to be without a casino for the first time in almost 30 years after The Star Entertainment Group Limited revealed it will be permanently shuttering its Treasury Brisbane property from Sunday.

Opened in April of 1995, the 125-room Treasury Brisbane features six restaurants, five bars, a nightclub, and a 67,788 sq ft casino hosting a selection of some 1,500 slots alongside 100 gaming tables offering blackjack, roulette, dice, baccarat, and poker entertainment. 

The four-story enterprise sits near the heart of Brisbane’s central business district and occupies a pair of listed buildings once home to offices of the Queensland government.

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Worthy Replacement

However, casino aficionados in Australia’s third largest city will not have to wait long to get their gambling fix as The Star Entertainment Group Limited disclosed it will be premiering its new The Star Brisbane venue from August 29. This giant successor has been six years in the making and is to be located within the coming Queen’s Wharf development, only a few hundred feet from Treasury Brisbane.

The Star Entertainment Group Limited, which is moreover responsible for Australia’s gambling-friendly The Star Gold Coast and The Star Sydney, clarified the Treasury Brisbane closure is necessary because the coming The Star Brisbane is to utilize the same casino license issued by the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR).

“The Star Entertainment Group Limited has been advised by the OLGR of its approval pursuant to the Casino Control Act 1982 to close Treasury Brisbane to the public at midnight on August 25, 2024,” read a statement from The Star Entertainment Group Limited. 

“Closing Treasury Casino on this date is part of final preparations ahead of the planned staged opening of Queen’s Wharf, subject to final regulatory approvals.” says the statement.

Super Successor

The Star Entertainment Group Limited began work to bring a casino to the $2.4 billion Queen’s Wharf scheme in March of 2018 and hopes the new enterprise will serve as a magnet for tourists from around the world. The Sydney-listed firm additionally explained The Star Brisbane will be at the center of the fresh 30-acre development situated along the banks of the Brisbane River, featuring a two-story gambling floor housing as many as 2,500 slots as well as about 200 gaming tables.

Daniel Finch serves as the Chief Executive Officer for The Star Brisbane and he divulged the new property will eventually also feature an array of restaurants, more than 1,000 hotel rooms and a 37,600 sq ft events center with a pillarless ballroom. The experienced executive went on to assert the ‘game-changing development’ is set to ‘invigorate’ the central business district of Brisbane with its opening to be a ‘planned and phased’ affair running ‘over many weeks and in numerous stages’. 

“We want to ensure our team members are prepared, our facilities have been tested, our processes are right and, importantly, our guests have an exceptional experience that they will talk about and come back to experience again,” Finch said. “Not everything will open all at once on day one.”