Secure funding to enhance your business space and create a more vibrant, engaging environment to attract customers.

Applications open until 14 April 2025

From locally-led activations to large-scale sporting events and new businesses opening, there is something for everyone to enjoy in Ipswich Central.

The engagement on the Welcome to Ipswich program has now closed, but applications to the program remain open.

This program is designed to add potted greenery to premises and improve walkability and revitalise Ipswich Central.

Applicants have now been notified.

The engagement on the preliminary concept design for the Cultural Heart has now closed. We have now reviewed and collated your responses.

The Arbour is now installed along East Street, between Roderick and South Streets. We have now reviewed and collated your responses.

This funding program is now closed. We are assessing and working with applicants.

Decorative lighting just makes life better. This project will bring Ipswich Central to life in the evening through different styles of lighting or even graphic projections.

Expressions of interest are now closed and council is reviewing applications.

This project explores opportunities to convert spaces currently designed for cars into places people like to gather and spend time, creating a more vibrant city.

Reducing speed limits in high active transport user areas not only improves safety for pedestrians and road users, but it enables footpath activities and street performances.

By establishing connected networks of green, safe, comfortable pedestrian focused streets this project will bring vitality back into the heart of Ipswich.

The Living Breathing Gallery is about encouraging people to visit the Ipswich Centre Core and creating a sense of arrival, through eye-catching murals, creative artworks and markers.

Two scramble crossings have been installed in Ipswich Central to make it safer for pedestrians to move around.

Arts and culture are transformative elements for Ipswich Central. They help to position cities as attractive places to live, work and invest and are key to the revitalisation.

At over 80m this public art project embraces the connecting historic alleyway between Ellenborough St and the Nicholas Street Precinct.

Over two rounds, the Facade Improvement Program has seen over $750,000 invested to date in the restoration and enhancement of our City’s facades.