St Lukes wellness hub opens in Launceston (22/7/24)

St Lukes has unveiled its wellness hub on the ground floor of the newly-built 93 Cimitiere Street. Video by Aaron Smith and Craig George (22/7/24)

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00:00This is a really exciting time for St Luke's. It's a really tactile illustration of St Luke's

00:06devotion to make Tasmania the healthiest island on the planet. This building and this floor is a

00:12real open invitation by St Luke's to the community to come into a space that's hardwired for health.

00:20It's been purpose built with just one goal in mind and that is to help Tasmanians come up with

00:29a better journey when it comes to their health and well-being.

00:33Yeah look it's been five years since we came up with the conception of doing it. Four years we've

00:37been physically working on this particular building and our ambition was to create something

00:42very unique for Maunceston. St Luke's is probably the largest office-based head office in Maunceston

00:49of anybody with 140 people spread all over the town so this brings St Luke's to one floor,

00:56sorry the one building, which is fantastic. Then we wanted to create this downstairs area as

01:01something to encourage people to come in, have a great time, have a beautiful coffee with a sweet

01:06brew, enjoy the playgrounds and really have a good experience in the building. All the floors are

01:12leased at the moment except for level four and we've got two parties very seriously looking at

01:17that which we're working with. So we have Allianz and Salveo on level one, we have Newton and Henry

01:24Charve accountants on level two, Ready Tech technology company are expanding significantly

01:29on level three. Level four is the one that we're currently negotiating with and then St Luke's

01:34have got five, six, seven. So it hopefully will be pretty close to fully tentative within I'm

01:39hoping six months because it's been a long journey. I think the benefits start with where we are on the

01:44ground floor here. We took this decision to keep the existing buildings on site. Whilst they weren't

01:49heritage listed, they are really important for the street, Scimitia Street here. They're important

01:54because they're part of Launceston that's very much this post-industrial character. So we took

02:00the challenge to keep the buildings and I think what we see around us is a really nice marriage

02:04of new and old. That contributed to our carbon rating because with all the embodied energy in

02:10the building already, we were able to keep. So that was a really strong point. So whilst a lot

02:15of the attention will go to sort of the new technology, the GLT and the CLT timber,

02:20it is actually sort of at the ground here where it starts our story.