Developer hands LNP $100k donation two months after prime land deal.
A family trust linked to developer Lancini Property Group has handed the LNP a six-figure donation, just two months after being awarded rights to prime state-owned waterfront land in Brisbane.
Electoral Commission of Queensland disclosure logs reveal the Lancini Family Discretionary Trust’s $100,000 donation, declared on Thursday, was the single biggest contribution to the party since the Crisafulli government scrapped the state’s developer donation ban.
In September, Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie announced 13 luxury towers, housing up to 5000 people, would be built on the site as part of a residential mixed-use precinct.
Economic Development Queensland selected five separate developers, including Lancini Property Group, to develop the six-hectare site, expected to include 2200 units, a shopping centre, hotel, childcare facility and medical services.
Under the previous Labor government, the Hamilton precinct was earmarked to be the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games athletes’ village.
That vision was scrapped when the new LNP government accepted the Games Independent Infrastructure and Co-ordination Authority recommendation that “alternative site assessments” be explored.
Lancini Property Group chairman Laurence Lancini sits on the GIICA board and has previously told The Australian his Hamilton interests were on the authority’s conflict of interest register.
Nothing suspicious there at all!!