Based in Capalaba, we service the whole Calamvale, Algester, Stretton and Parkinson corridor.
Calamvale takes its name from the Calam family, early settlers and prominent landowners whose homestead once stood at the top of Calam Road. The site is now occupied by the Calamvale Hotel.
View Area →Algester was detached from Acacia Ridge and named in 1972, after Algester Road itself, a corruption of Alcester Road, named in the 1920s by a subdivider after his home village near Birmingham, England.
View Area →Stretton was named after George Stretton, a settler and hotelier at Browns Plains in the 1880s, with the suburb's name gazetted in 1972. Over half the suburb is taken up by Karawatha State Park.
View Area →Parkinson was named after railway engineer Henry Parkinson, and today the Logan Motorway bisects the suburb, with its southernmost corner marking the very edge of the City of Brisbane.
View Area →Karawatha's name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning a place with pine trees, and the suburb today protects the Karawatha Forest, one of Brisbane's largest bushland reserves.
View Area →Kuraby was officially gazetted on 16 August 1975, taking its name from the local railway station, first used by the Railway Department in 1889 after previously being known as Spring Creek railway station.
View Area →Sunnybank was named after Sunnybrae, a farm established by settler Samuel Gillespie in 1877 near where the railway station now stands, with brae being the Scottish word for bank.
View Area →Sunnybank Hills was once part of the broader Sunnybank fruit growing and plant nursery district, before being named in its own right in 1971 as housing estates replaced the surrounding farmland.
View Area →Robertson was named on 1 August 1967 by the Queensland Place Names Board in memory of Dr William Nathaniel Robertson, a University of Queensland Senate member and honorary surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
View Area →Runcorn was reportedly named after Runcorn, Cheshire, England, the birthplace of a local clergyman around 1880, and two tributary headwaters of Bulimba Creek rise within the suburb.
View Area →Acacia Ridge takes its name from the acacia, or wattle, trees that once grew abundantly along the ridge line, and the suburb was originally part of the much larger Cowpers Plains district.
View Area →Nathan was officially named on 1 August 1967 after Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Queensland from 1920 to 1926, and today is home to Griffith University's Nathan campus and the Toohey Forest Conservation Park.
View Area →Eight Mile Plains likely takes its name from its distance along Logan Road from One Mile Swamp in Woolloongabba, with the Eight Mile Plains Agricultural Reserve first proclaimed back in 1864.
View Area →Mansfield was named by the Queensland Place Names Board on 1 August 1967, honouring the then Queensland Governor Sir Alan Mansfield, with the suburb's eastern edge marked by the Gateway Motorway.
View Area →Wishart was originally known as Mount Gravatt South before being renamed in 1967 after an early European settler in the district.
View Area →MacGregor was named in 1967 after Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Queensland from 1909 to 1914, who had earlier served as Administrator of British New Guinea.
View Area →Mount Gravatt East is one of three suburbs carved from the original, much larger Mount Gravatt district, and takes in Mount Thompson, which rises to 190 metres above sea level.
View Area →Rochedale takes its name from the Roche family, Irish immigrants who arrived in Australia in 1860 and built a homestead they called Rochedale on the rich alluvial soil here in 1868.
View Area →Rochedale South was carved from the southern portion of the larger Rochedale district, and shares its name and heritage with the Roche family who first settled the area from 1860.
View Area →Burbank is a rural suburb named after surveyor Alfred Burbank, who settled in the district in 1890.
View Area →Coopers Plains was originally known as Cowper's Plains, likely named by Commandant Patrick Logan after Dr Henry Cowper, assistant surgeon at the Moreton Bay penal settlement from 1823 to 1832.
View Area →Archerfield takes its name from the Archerfield pastoral station, a 14,000-acre landholding acquired by settler Michael Durack in 1881, and the suburb later became Brisbane's main airport until 1948.
View Area →Willawong sits in Brisbane's south, historically an industrial and rural pocket near the Oxley Creek corridor, with much of the suburb still given over to bulky goods and waste-management industry today.
View Area →Heathwood is a light-industrial suburb on Brisbane's southern fringe, bordering Willawong and Larapinta, and its name reflects the heath-like native vegetation that once covered much of the district.
View Area →Larapinta takes its name from an Aboriginal word, and together with Parkinson and Heathwood forms Brisbane's southernmost residential and industrial fringe along the Logan Motorway corridor.
View Area →Doolandella was originally part of Inala, taking its name from an Aboriginal expression referring to the geebung tree and its fruit.
View Area →Forest Lake sits on a former eucalyptus plantation on Brisbane's south-western outskirts, developed from 1992 by the Springfield Land Corporation, and takes its name from its centrepiece artificial lake.
View Area →Inala takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning a good or peaceful place, and the suburb was developed as a Commonwealth housing estate for post-war migrants and returned servicemen from the early 1950s.
View Area →Richlands takes its name from the fertile agricultural land that characterised the district before post-war residential development, and today borders both Inala and the Ipswich Motorway corridor.
View Area →Drewvale was named in 1971 after an early family in the district, and sits at the interchange of the Gateway and Logan Motorways, home to some of the southernmost residential streets in the City of Brisbane.
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