February 27, 2026 — 4:05pm
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Work has started on another Olympic venue in south-east Queensland, with excavators moving in on a landmark Logan building to clear the site for a new indoor stadium.
All three levels of government, represented by federal Treasurer and local member Jim Chalmers, Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie and Logan Mayor Jon Raven – or “triple J” as Bleijie quipped – were on hand to watch as a section of the old Logan PCYC wall was knocked down.
The PCYC building will make way for a 7000-seat, nine-court indoor sports centre, which had been slated as an Olympic host venue in 2032.
Demolition work has begun on a PCYC in Logan Central, which will make way for the new Logan Indoor Sports Centre for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Cameron Atfield
It will be delivered as part of the joint federal- and state-funded $7.1 billion Olympic infrastructure program delivering 17 venues across Queensland.
“This will be a game-changer for the kids and the families of Logan City and the surrounding areas,” Chalmers said.
Jim Chalmers and Jarrod Bleijie at Logan on Friday.Cameron Atfield
“This is the biggest single investment in sporting infrastructure in Logan City ever and it’s something that the federal government is very, very proud to partner with the state government on and work closely with Logan City Council on as well.”
Either side of the Games, the centre would be made available to local schools, clubs, and community groups in Logan.
The venue would be well-served by the Woodridge train station, Raven said, which would cater for bumper Olympic crowds.
But first, a principal design contractor would have to be appointed, a process Bleijie said was nearing completion within the Games Independent Infrastructure and Co-ordination Authority – the statutory body tasked with delivering Olympic venues.
Bleijie said the venue would be completed – and made available for community use – well before the 2032 Games.
“You’d expect to see construction start either end of this year or early 2027, but there’s a lot of work to do in the meantime,” he said.
The planned Logan Indoor Sports Centre, which will be a venue at the 2032 Games.GIICA
But just what competition the venue would host in 2032 was ultimately up to the Games’ organising committee.
“Ball sports you would expect [to host] here; taekwondo, karate, all those sorts of things,” Bleijie said.
“But that’s hard to say in absolute terms at the moment, because the sports are still being decided.”
Two sports Raven was itching to get on to the 2032 roster were baseball and softball.
Separate to GIICA’s venue delivery, Raven has been cap-in-hand to local and foreign investors to build a privately funded baseball stadium at Griffith University’s Meadowbrook campus.
Last year, Raven gave himself a March deadline to secure funding. On Friday – two days out from March – he said he was getting close.
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“We’ve had some fantastic interest in the baseball stadium and we’re working with partners overseas,” Raven said.
“Just two weeks ago, just before Lunar New Year began, we were talking to construction companies who are very excited about doing a proof of concept of how great a baseball stadium would be in south-east Queensland, and how good it would be to have a stadium that can be used for so much more than sport.”
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