Well well another design change

 

Mr Fung has described Aquis as a Mini City, let's say a Mega City
The design for the Aquis Casino/Resort has changed yet again, Why?
The latest design is adding more to the original design which includes NOT ONE BUT TWO CASINOS and how will this affect the EIS which was produced for the original design so will they have to submit another EIS?.
What Tony Fung has to remember is that this is Yorkeys Knob not Las Vegas, Macau or Hong Kong and building this monstrosity will affect the Northern Beach and more so Yorkeys Knob for years to come.
They haven't sat down with the locals to discuss this development apart from "information centres" setup in Cairns Central and at Yorkeys.
We need to talk to the power brokers, we need to know what is happening because many changes have been put forward but in the last design everything is back on board, do they really know themselves what is happening? but they said they won't talk to the residents but will only talk to the committee members of Yorkeys Residents Association. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Let's look at the designs:

The original design:

Then on December 4, 2013 the Member for Cairns Gavin King said That he preferred this design:


Drawcard: Member for Cairns Gavin King said Singapore"s Marina Bay Sanda resort was the preferred model for a casino development

Then in March of 2014 a revised plan was displayed in the Cairns Post:

 



Impression of the Aquis development above & below



 

 



 Then again on April 4, 2014 a new masterplan emerged at a cost of $8.15 billion not $4.2 billion:

 

The new design outlay

Bold Vision

 



The official masterplan of the Aquis mega-resort courtesy of Flanagan Consulting Group



The complete outlay of the Casino/Resort.

 

One has to ask why are these people changing the designs as if there is no tomorrow?

Also why does Cairns need three casinos as we don't have the population and if the politicians think that we are going to be invaded by Chinese I suggest that you think again because recent surveys carried out showed that more Chinese are going to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

This project will not benefit the Cairns CBD shops and definitely will not help the businesses in Yorkeys as all the Chinese visiting will probably do their shopping at Aquis.