Invest Sunshine Coast

The Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, is a smart, healthy and creative place to live and work.

The new version of this free app has real-time content updates, a notifications function and click to call capability.

Content includes:

* News stories about business growth and opportunities.

* Major projects map demonstrating $12.5billion in development and infrastructure.

* Video testimonials from local businesses.

* Promotional videos.

Major project topics include:

* Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network

* New Maroochydore City Centre

* Health and medical precinct

* Aviation development

* Commercial, residential and mixed use precincts

* High value industries

Featured industries include:

* Knowledge & Professional Services

* Health & Wellbeing

* Education & Research

* Tourism, Sport & Leisure

* Aviation & Aerospace

* Agribusiness

* Clean Technologies

Contact options:

* Click to call

* Click to email

* Click to website

* Send me more information

* Arrange a time for someone to call you

* Arrange a visit to the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast Council welcomes and supports the growth of local businesses and the establishment of new ones on the Sunshine Coast.

Sunshine Coast Council provides support services for business and investors:

* A single entry point for service

* Business case development support

* Trade and investment delegations

* Customised site selection assistance

* Incentives and assistance.

Other interesting Sunshine Coast facts:

* The Sunshine Coast is one of Australia’s fastest growing regions, with high levels of business confidence. With a growing economy and an enviable work-life balance, it is proven as a smart place for business.

* There is more than one million consumers within a 45 minute radius of the Sunshine Coast.

* In 2018, the Sunshine Coast Council announced the region as the latest landing point in Australia for an submarine broadband cable, providing Australia’s fastest, most affordable international data and telecommunications connection to Asia.

* With an international broadband submarine cable landing here and being in service from mid-2020, the region becomes the ideal Australian location for domestic and global operators.

* The region is a world-class business and investment destination, with more than $12.5billion in private and public sector investment underway.

* The new Maroochydore CBD will offer Australia’s fastest and most reliable connectivity to key global markets.

* The coast is home to Australia’s newest international airport with new runway under construction.

* The region has a new $5 billion health precinct and $1.8 billion tertiary teaching hospital and a medical training school.

* It’s a tech-savvy region, ranking #1 for online business growth and winning a Google eTown Award. With a reputation for innovation, the Sunshine Coast was named as a Smart21 Community of 2018 in four of the past five years, by the Intelligent Community Forum.

* The Sunshine Coast is in the top ten leading regions in the country for employment generation, adding more than 20,000 jobs over the last five years (Department of Jobs and Small Business, 2017).

* An entrepreneurial and intelligent culture has seen more than $30 million in capital assistance and 110 businesses graduated through the nationally-awarded Sunshine Coast Innovation Centre.

* The development of the largest health precinct in the Southern Hemisphere is attracting new business and medical specialists from across Australia and around the world.

* Sunshine Coast Council is the fifth largest council in Australia and is winning regular national awards for supporting local economic and business development.

* The term ‘Seachange’ was coined on the Sunshine Coast in the early 2000s.

* The Sunshine Coast has access to all major transport networks and export infrastructure – air, road and rail and broadband connectivity – including the award-winning Sunshine Coast Airport