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BSB Welcomes A New Board Member

Janette Wright, CEO and State Librarian, State Library of Queensland has joined the Business South Bank (BSB) Board taking over the position left vacant from Barton Green. 

David O’Brien, DKM Group & current BSB Treasurer, has been appointed as Chair of BSB until the October AGM.

Connected to Community

Temporary road closure due to Southpoint Project

In order to facilitate construction of underground electrical cable pits and conduit reticulation systems with regards to the Southpoint Project, a temporary road closure has been granted.

This will affect the southbound turning lane of Grey Street between Tribune and Vulture Streets between 25th June 2015 and 24th July 2015.

Works will be carried out as day works between the hours of 7:00am and 5:00pm , but the lane closures will be 24hrs.

Please contact the Southpoint enquiry line on 0477 742 638 or email southpoint@watpac.com.au for more information.

Connected to Events

West Village Information Session

West Village is a 2.6 hectare development site bounded by Boundary and Mollison Streets, directly at the end of Melbourne Street.

A mixed-use development of apartments, retail, open space and laneways is being proposed.

This is an important development site for the precinct and BSB encourages members to attend this session to hear about the plan.

Click here for more information and to register.

Professional Development Session:
'Don't turn a blind eye to customer service'


The third session in Business South Bank’s 2015 Professional Development series will be presented by Gerrard Gosens from the Queensland Eye Institute, and business owner of four retail stores in Brisbane.

Gerrard will share strategies on how to generate business through
effective communication and customer service to all members of the community.

All BSB members are encouraged to attend this inspiring, captivating and thought provoking professional development workshop on Wednesday 15 July.

Click here to register.
 

Queensland Theatre Company and QPAC present:
'Country Song' 


The premise of Country Song is this: Jimmy Little is waiting backstage. He's been asked to perform the national anthem, in front of an audience that love him and his music. He is an Australian icon; an entertainer first and foremost. But what does it mean to sing this song now? Does it matter? Who is he really singing for?

When: 4 July - 8 August
Where: Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Click here for more information and to book tickets

Congratulations to Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.

GOMA Restaurant has been promoted from one to two hats at The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide 2016 awards, held on Monday night. Chef, Josue Lopez, was also awarded Citi Chef of the Year. Brisbane Times Good Food Guide editor, Natascha Mirosch, says "He has a love of native Australian ingredients and local produce and also takes inspiration from the art at GOMA by creating dishes that reflect an exhibition or particular piece. There's a sense of place to his cooking in terms of both local Queensland and being in the middle of an art gallery."

Retailer Feature

Friday lunch deal at Che Asado & Bar

Inspired by traditional restaurants and bars of Argentina, CHE offers an eclectic mix of culture, flavour and fun.

Take a mate + both order from the charcoal grill + team Che will shout you both a glass of malbec.

Available Friday lunch 11.30am - 4.00pm

Advantage Offer

Complimentary 30minute Workplace Health Consultation with Pondera Physiotherapy & Pilates

Are you sitting down to read this? Chances are, if you are working in an office you will be spending over 70% of your work day sitting! It is common for businesses to be reactive addressing workplace health issues, our Physiotherapists’ expertise can help businesses focus on the preventative aspect. We invite BSB members to have a complementary 30 minute consultation (valued at $150) to discuss their workplace health needs. So don’t sit and yawn over workplace health, stand up and take advantage of this offer today.

The Connection

Name and position?
Gerrard Gosens, Special Projects Manager at Queensland Eye Institute (QEI).

Tell us about your business/organisation?
The Queensland Eye Institute is Queensland’s only independent medical research, hospital, eye clinic, and academic institute dedicated to blindness, low vision, and eye related health.  It has been established to reduce blindness and low vision, improve eye health, and ultimately eliminate preventable blindness around the world.

Our premises in Melbourne Street, South Brisbane brings together our eye clinic to treat people with eye disease and eye related problems (including blindness and low vision), medical research laboratories to help find better treatments and cures, plus a teaching facility for a wide range of medical training activities. We have also established the South Bank Day Hospital onsite, and the Queensland Electro-diagnostic Imaging Centre.

The Queensland Eye Institute Foundation is a not-for-profit charity and we receive no government funding, we rely on the generosity of donations and bequests to fund our work, especially critical medical research. In a few short years research funded through these programs has been ground breaking, but there is more work to do. At present, we are the only group in Australia engaged in the development of cell therapies for all clinically significant regions of the eye.

What are your key skills and responsibilities?
My responsibilities at the Queensland Eye Institute span across a diverse range of areas, and these include project management, marketing, public relations, government relations, education. 

My responsibilities also include the establishment of a number of projects throughout the State which will assist in generating funds and awareness of the Queensland Eye Institute. 

How many people work at your business?
80 employees and 14 volunteers.

What is your favourite place in the precinct?
Being a long distance Paralympic athlete, the running paths are my favourite part of the precinct.

What do you want BSB members to know about you or your business?
QEI is a hidden gem in respect to what it does. Changing the lives of Queenslanders who are blind or have low vision.
Our hospital and day clinic provide medical treatment and care to over 18,000 people every year.

QEI does not receive any government funding, and is totally dependent upon the generosity of the community.

What is something people wouldn’t know about the Queensland Eye Institute?
It is celebrating its 50th Anniversary of its medical research into the cure of blindness.

It has a dedicated team of staff doing medical research into the four major areas of blindness.

What has recently happened at your organisation?
The medical research team have identified some great markers into the prevention of glaucoma.  The QLD Eye Institute has established a fundraising committee with representatives from businesses around Brisbane volunteering their time to help raise money for our medical research.

What have you learnt lately?
Opportunities exist everywhere, even where you least expect it! The contacts that I made at the BSB Showcase event have resulted in the planning of some amazing fundraising events including the ‘Hair Raiser’ celebrity event to be held on World Sight Day, October 8.

What do you hope to achieve in your industry?
We hope to cure blindness.

What inspires you?
The challenge.

I have, what I consider to be, both the best and worst job in the world. I have the opportunity to change lives, considering half of the Australian population is known to have a sight problem– but no one knows who we are and what we do at
QEI. It all starts with raising awareness!

What are your words of wisdom?

I have three:

1. Success is a journey, never a destination
2. If you think you are two small to be effective, you’ve obviously never been bitten by a mosquito!
3. Change is constant, growth is optional