Lightning scores striking new football clubhouse

A new $4.8 million clubhouse at Chris Green Park in Beenleigh has provided a late-season boost for booming Logan Lightning Football Club. Division 12 Councillor Karen Murphy says the upgrade project at Chris Green Park in Boundary Street was funded by Council in partnership with the Australian Government. Facilities include new changerooms, players’ amenities, referees’ facilities, spectator amenities, a first-aid room, kitchen and kiosk, clubroom, external covered viewing area, office space, utility cleaners’ room and storage. ‘We worked with Lightning officials to ensure we got the new facilities they needed,’ Cr Murphy says. ‘Delivering this exciting project helps celebrate the club’s wonderful achievements on the field this year, while it also sets them up for a flying start to next year’s season and for years to come.’ The new clubhouse is among a raft of top-class sporting facilities throughout Division 12 that have been upgraded in recent times or are in the pipeline.

These include:

• The Dauth Park Masterplan, which includes the new 50-metre heated pool as part of the Beenleigh Aquatic Centre upgrade
• A planned upgrade of facilities for the Beenleigh Lions Junior Rugby League club at Hammel Park
• The already delivered new lighting and ramps at the Doug Larsen BMX freestyle park in Beenleigh
• A lighting upgrade for the Logan City Lions Touch Football Club at Noyer Park
• A planned lighting upgrade for the junior rugby league club at Hammel Park
• New clubhouse facilities for the Twin Rivers Community Mallet Sports Club at Bedford Park in Eagleby
• A planned lighting upgrade for the Beenleigh AFC and Beenleigh Pirates Cricket Club at Dauth Park
• Field rebuild and lighting upgrade for the Eagleby Giants Junior Rugby League Football Club at Bishop St Park

Photo at top: Cr Murphy opens the doors for the first time at the new Logan Lightning FC clubhouse in Beenleigh.