Azure Blue Carina - Village Brochure

A time for new beginnings

CARINA

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QUEENSLAND

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AUSTRALIA

Welcome to Azure Blue Carina It takes a very special place for you to feel like you’re coming home as soon as you arrive. Perhaps it’s the irreplaceable location that affords you convenient, everyday living. Perhaps it’s that the things you love most are just outside your door. Perhaps it’s that the spaciousness makes it feel like living your best life rather than compromising.

Or maybe it’s that the smiling faces and genuine warmth of this community can be seen and felt. Welcome home.

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Carina has all the dynamic facilities of inner city living, but is renowned for its undeniable sense of community.

Located just 7 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD, Carina is a hub of shopping, restaurants and essential services. Everything you need to live a practical, easy retirement lifestyle is at your doorstep.

But at its heart, Carina is a little bit of bush paradise. The suburb is peppered with cycle pathways, parklands and bush walking trails.

And from its coveted hilltop location, Azure Blue Carina offers uninterrupted views of the natural bushland that surrounds the village.

With the everyday maintenance of your apartment taken care of, you have the absolute freedom to enjoy a retirement lifestyle of perfect balance – the irreplaceable bush, community spirit and practicality of city living.

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Metropolitan location with a village heart Azure Blue Carina is perfectly positioned to create a relaxed, low maintenance retirement lifestyle.

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Set on the hilltop overlooking bushland, Azure Blue makes the most of surrounding natural and leisure attractions.

Cycling through Bulimba Creek cycleway, walking through Seven Hills Bushland Reserve or picnicking in Minnippi Parklands can all easily be part of your daily routine.

Restaurants, cafes, boutiques and major department stores are all easily accessible at the nearby Cannon Hill Shopping

Centre or Westfield Carindale, a quick bus ride away.

Medical services are within easy reach, plus Azure Blue Carina offers the added assurance of a collocated residential aged care facility located on site for whenever you need extra support.

“I just love the trees and views.

It really is a piece of the bush in the city.”

Ron, Village Resident

Whether you’re indulging in your little piece of paradise or taking advantage of easy access to the Gateway Motorway, Brisbane Airports and holiday destinations beyond, you’ll end every day by laying your head on the pillow with total confidence that your home is safe and secure.

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Close to everything D ISTA N C E S AND T I MIN G S LIFESTYLE Seven Hills Bushland Reserve Carina Bowls Club Morningside Tennis Centre Minnippi Parklands Meadowlands Picnic Ground Bulimba Creek Cycleway Queensland Museum Queensland Performing Arts Centre Gallery of Modern Art

3 minutes drive 3 minutes drive 5 minutes drive 7 minutes drive 7 minutes drive 7 minutes drive 17 minutes drive 17 minutes drive 17 minutes drive

EVERYDAY CONVENIENCES Cannon Hill Shopping Centre Westfield Carindale Shopping Centre

3 minutes drive/11 minutes walk 6 minutes drive

MEDICAL Carina Medical and Specialist Centre Minas Medical Clinic

3 minutes drive 7 minutes drive

In additional to medical centres within walking distance, there is a collocated residential aged care facility located on the Azure Blue site.

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D ESTINATION SNAP S H OT Easy Access to Gateway Motorway and Brisbane Airport

Azure Blue Carina is only seven kilometres from the Brisbane CBD and 12 minutes drive away from the Gateway Motorway providing easy access to the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.

Weather

More than 280 days of sunshine each year.

Natural Attractions

Minnippi Parklands Meadowlands Picnic Ground Bulimba Creek Cycleway Seven Hills Bushland Reserve

Arts and Culture

Queensland Museum Queensland Performing Arts Centre Gallery of Modern Art

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Events Cinema Carindale

Location, location, location Location is critical to the ease and practicality of everyday living.

When everything you need is on your doorstep and everything you want is just minutes away, it means you have the perfect location for an easy, carefree lifestyle full of the things that make you smile.

Be serenaded each morning by bird songs before deciding which parkland to spend your morning walk on. Or plan for an active day at the Carina Bowls Club or Morningside Tennis Centre, both within 5 minutes of your door.

Become a regular at Queensland’s top cultural exhibits and shows with

the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Queensland Museum within 17 minutes drive.

Café and restaurant lunches and afternoons shopping in boutiques and major department stores are within walking distance at Cannon Hill Shopping Centre or an easy bus ride to Westfield Cardindale.

At Azure Blue Carina convenience and practicality come hand in hand with close proximity to the hobbies and lifestyle facilities you need to make your retirement life exactly what you’ve hoped for.

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True community is not just seen but felt

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“Dad is more active in his community than ever before.�

Glenda, Daughter of Village Resident

Genuine community warmth and Carina’s leafy streets and parks create an ambience of friendly neighbourhoods from our past.

But when you enter Azure Blue Carina that genuine sense of welcome, that feeling of home, is everywhere.

Stunning hilltop bushland views are accented perfectly by beautifully landscaped gardens, creating a natural sense of peace and tranquillity.

A suite of security features offers an easy sense of comfort and security, or the freedom to lock up and leave knowing your home will be exactly as you left it when you return.

While each apartment offers you total privacy, resort-style facilities and a calendar of activities mean that there is always an excuse to catch up with friends.

It takes a very special place to make you feel at home, right from day one.

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Spacious modern apartment living in leafy surrounds

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“The apartments are so spacious.

I have room for myself and when family visit, there is room for them too.�

Ron, Village Resident

Wake up to uninterrupted bushland views that flow seamlessly through your beautifully appointed apartment.

Azure Blue Carina offers architecturally designed one, two and three bedroom apartments, expertly designed to meet every lifestyle need and budget.

Spacious living and entertainment areas flow into modern kitchens finished with first-class fittings and private bedrooms with ample storage.

Wake up to views that would make a farmer jealous. Relax in total privacy in a space that is both practical and luxurious. Step outside into a community of immediate friends.

Stunningly finished, spacious and affordable, your new home is both perfectly practical and opulently comfortable.

F EATURES + Spacious bedrooms and living areas + Master and ensuite bathrooms + Walk-in wardrobes + Large modern kitchens with ample storage + Air-conditioned master bedroom and living area + Intercom for identifying guests + Secure swipe card access + Security screens on all windows and patio doors + 24-hour emergency call system + Secure basement parking + On-site management team + On-site maintenance team

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Unparalleled facilities and resort-style living

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Get as much or as little of the easy retirement lifestyle as you want, just outside your door.

Fill your calendar with events and activities and use every facility on offer, or just choose your favourite hobbies.

Read your morning paper by the pool, dive in and complete your daily laps or hit the gym to start the day off right.

Relax in the library or catch a movie in the media room or while away some time indulging at the hair and beauty salon.

Meet your friends for lunch in the resident café, or invite your family for a BBQ while the kids enjoy the playground.

Outside of the premium

facilities, a monthly calendar offers plenty of opportunity to get into the spirit of the community, including mahjong, indoor bowls, shopping trips and a movie group.

With the things you love taken care of, relax with the knowledge that the community bus brings your extended Carina neighbourhood within easy reach.

With relaxed socialising at your doorstep, Azure Blue is purpose built for the lifestyle you’ve always wanted.

FACI L I T I E S + Heated swimming pool + Gymnasium + BBQ area + Library and media room + Games room + Pool table + Hair and beauty salon + Resident café + Indoor bowls + Children’s playground + Monthly event calendar + Bush walk path + Community garden

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Azure Blue, a hub of activity Enjoy the best years of your life at your own pace.

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A monthly schedule of community activities allows you to enjoy the company of others as much as you desire.

Our well organised residents are actively involved in arranging functions and social activities such as community barbecues, outdoor bowls, line dancing, yoga, arts and crafts, pool and billiards, movie days and more.

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The little things that

mean a lot

The everyday necessities are taken care of. A team of professionals is ready and waiting to provide help when you need it.

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Azure Blue is operated by Blue Care, which is part of UnitingCare Queensland. What that means for you is the confidence that Queensland’s leading care provider and their 65 years of experience are there for you when you need it.

This includes taking care of everyday home and lawn maintenance, so that you’re free to enjoy the things you love most. Enjoy the ease of jumping on and off the bus to hit all of Carina’s dining and shopping hot spots.

Additional services such as private transportation and allied health services delivered in the comfort of your own home are readily available.

Plus, Azure Blue Carina is also home to its very own collocated aged care facility so that you will never have to travel far to ensure your future needs are met.

When you combine more than half a century of experience helping residents build incredible retirement lifestyles and a commitment to modern homes and facilities you create the perfect recipe for living the life you’ve always wanted.

Azure Blue offers security, freedom and more time to enjoy life. Here are some of the services on offer: + Dedicated maintenance team + 24-hour emergency call system Blue Care Help at Home offers: + House cleaning + Transportation services + Allied health services (not at home)

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Making the move together

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“If something ever happens to us we know we will be taken care of.”

Patricia, Village Resident

Azure Blue has assisted all of our residents in turning the decision-making and moving process from anxious to exciting.

Everyone’s experience is unique. You have questions. We have answers.

Allow one of our experienced team members to assist you through the entire process, from understanding when is the right time to move, to clearly laying out costs and even talking you through selling your existing home.

Here’s what we can help with: + Explaining the costs of retirement village living + Identifying the right time to move + Finding the right real estate agent to sell your existing home + Coordinating the timing of your sale and purchase of your new home + Choosing the right Azure Blue home to suit your needs + Personalised tour of homes, facilities and meeting with existing residents + Step by step assistance with process of purchase We recommend seeking independent legal and financial advice prior to entering into a contract.

Not everybody who moves into a retirement village is retired. No one person’s journey is the same as another.

Contact us today and feel confident in approaching this decision with total clarity and support at every step.

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The information contained in this brochure is for guidance purposes only. All information is provided in good faith and is believed to be accurate; however prospective purchasers should not rely on this information and should make their own enquiries. All artist impressions, images and photographs are for presentation purposes and are indicative.

Easy retirement living in a natural bushland setting

455 Richmond Road, Carina QLD 4020 Call 1800 990 446 AzureBlue.com.au/Carina