Robin Loh with masterplans of Robina Town Centre
August 30th, 2010
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THE Singaporean industrialist who masterminded the development of Robina has died during a flight to Hong Kong.
Dr Robin Loh died on Saturday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease and related conditions.
The 81-year-old was on a flight from Singapore to Hong Kong when he succumbed to breathing difficulties.
Not many people today know about this, but Dr Loh secured a place for himself in Queensland history when, in 1980, he acquired a 20 square kilometre parcel of scrub and grazing land on the southern end of the Gold Coast. The name Robina was logically named after its founder...!!
Three decades later, Robina has become a master-planned community of 30,000 people, with a specially constructed town centre as its anchor point, along with parks, transport, health, entertainment and other infrastructure. Robina, as it stands today, is one of the best planned townships in Gold Coast. Since then, other planned communities have since been built across Australia using the same formula.
In May, the Queensland government flagged three new, similar cities for the state's southeast, to be built on greenfield sites at Ripley Valley, west of Springfield, and Greater Flagstone and Yarrabilba, in Logan's south near Jimboomba.
''He was a visionary with an exceptional work ethic and he will be sadly missed by all those close to him,'' Dr Loh's daughter Louise said in a statement.
''My father was very proud of what has been achieved at Robina. We were hoping that he could make it to Robina to mark the 30th anniversary, but that wasn't to be.''
At the peak of his career, Dr Loh was involved in shipping, shipbuilding, oil rig construction, banking, insurance, hotels, property development, manufacturing, research and development, and primary industries.
The Robina landholdings are no longer part of Dr Loh's interests, after being acquired by entities associated with Ms Loh and her husband, Robina Land Corporation (RLC) chief executive Richard Wyatt.
- (Source; AAP)
In May, the Queensland government flagged three new, similar cities for the state's southeast, to be built on greenfield sites at Ripley Valley, west of Springfield, and Greater Flagstone and Yarrabilba, in Logan's south near Jimboomba.
''He was a visionary with an exceptional work ethic and he will be sadly missed by all those close to him,'' Dr Loh's daughter Louise said in a statement.
''My father was very proud of what has been achieved at Robina. We were hoping that he could make it to Robina to mark the 30th anniversary, but that wasn't to be.''
At the peak of his career, Dr Loh was involved in shipping, shipbuilding, oil rig construction, banking, insurance, hotels, property development, manufacturing, research and development, and primary industries.
The Robina landholdings are no longer part of Dr Loh's interests, after being acquired by entities associated with Ms Loh and her husband, Robina Land Corporation (RLC) chief executive Richard Wyatt.
- (Source; AAP)
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