The largest mail facility in the Southern Hemisphere has opened at Redbank ahead of what Australia Post predicts will be its busiest peak Christmas period in history.

The new $240 million facility at Redbank Motorway Estate is the size of eight football fields, has more than 500 people employed on site and is loaded with technology including Automated Guided Vehicles, robotic arms and parcel pickers. It will be able to process 700,000 parcels per day at full capacity.

Lush, green fields and netball courts await thousands of Ipswich sportspeople – both players and supporters – with the opening of the $56 million Springfield Central Sporting Complex.

The City of Logan is fast emerging as a global investment hotspot in south-east Queensland, buoyed by a strong economic track record, historic levels of infrastructure investment in the pipeline and business confidence on the rise.

Ipswich City Council has paved the way for Brisbane Lions to build a boutique football stadium at Springfield Central.

It gives the Lions the green light to start construction on the $70 million facility, which was secured with the financial support of council, the Federal and State Governments, Springfield City Group and the AFL.

Bethany Christian Care wants to build 200 independent retirement living units and a 100-bed aged care facility on a 14.47 acre site at Redbank Plains.