$1,473,643
A world-first music tourism platform that incentivises discovery of regional and remote Queensland piloting two initial trails (Outback and South-East Queensland) to drive significant visitation across cities and towns.
Woodfordia
$1,463,300
A new, fully-programmed arts and cultural camping experience, including immersive and interactive activities designed to entertain, teach and inspire.
Circa Contemporary Circus
$1,372,509
The creation of a live circus production based on the internationally acclaimed TV Show ‘Shaun the Sheep’ to tour around Australia.
La Boite Theatre
$959,980
The engagement of 12 actors and 10 creatives for a 18-month period, spanning a range of specialties and focus areas including acting, theatre-making, directing, dramaturgy and more.
In 2017 the owners floated a plan to expand existing facilities, build a water park, a new 120-room resort hotel, glamping tents and a food hub. Email exchanges between the owners from December last year, revealed in court documents, showed a business relationship in decline. Mr Kendall and Mr Rankin disagreed on how much development and project manager Jim Costello should be paid as part of a services agreement. Over the past five years Mr Costello has been involved in the project he worked to get development approvals and state government grants. Big Pineapple co-owner Peter Kendall, manager Dean Croyden, co-owner Brad Rankin and renewal project manager Jim Costello pictured at Sunshine Coast Daily’s Future Sunshine Coast event.