Meet the Hinchinbrook Habitats Development Team

 

The Everetts, a well known North Queensland family, started their business journey in the late 1970s with Burdekin Yamaha before selling in 1982 and moving to Townsville to start Rising Sun Economy Cars. 

 

By 1996 this growing business had evolved from one used car yard into the QPR Auto Group, the largest non-franchise used car dealer in North Queensland, with five locations and over 250 cars in stock. 

 

It was around this time that the Everett Group started NQ Barramundi and Aquaculture in Rasmussen.  Four years on and this venture had doubled in size and was eventually bought by the current owners GFB Fisheries. 

 

In 2003 the Everett Group acquired what is now Hinchinbrook Habitats with the intention of developing the site into a prawn farm.  It was soon realised that this unique tract of land with it's thick remnant vegetation and large pockets of rainforest could be so much more, and from here the dream of Hinchinbrook Habitats evolved with development approval being granted for a Residential Estate and Land Subdivision. 

 

At the heart of the development was the desire, not just to create another residential estate but to present an opportunity for people to 'live the dream' of a tropical North Queensland lifestyle surrounded by natural wilderness.  With this in mind the Everetts are proud that more than 75% of Hinchinbrook Habitats will remain untouched and retained as a nature reserve in an effort to ensure the area's natural beauty and diverse habitats remain.