Brisbane thrill-seekers could soon be able to go skydiving without jumping out of a plane, or go further than a Westfield shopping centre.
Brisbane City Council received a development application from iFLY Australia on Tuesday, proposing a $14 million skydiving centre be built in an existing carpark at Westfield Chermside.
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Documentation submitted by iFLY Australia to the council as part of the application said about 48 car parking spaces would be lost to accommodate the development, and the development would not build any additional car parking.
An iFLY Australia spokesman told Fairfax Media the deal between iFLY Australia and Westfield had been years in the making.
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"Chermside Shopping Centre is one of the best, if not the best shopping centre in Australia," he said.
"It has huge visitation and real great entertainment, retail and food offering and what iFLY brings is the extra entertainment to a shopping centre.
"This deal with Westfield has been years and years in the making, finally we've closed it.
"We've had other sites we've basically let go of to make this site happen."
The proposed centre would be the first in Brisbane, and the second Australian site for the international company.
If approval is granted, iFLY at Westfield Chermside is scheduled to open late 2018.
The company received approval from the council in December 2013 to build an indoor skydiving facility at Sandgate Road, Virginia, but this will no longer go ahead.
The spokesman said, having done more than 6000 jumps himself, there was no difference in the free fall sensation between an indoor wind tunnel dive or jumping from a plane.
"The generation that we are bringing here to Australia is the very very latest technology," the spokesman said.
"What we are about to bring to Brisbane is the best tunnel version in the world.
"It's going to be absolutely phenomenal, extremely quiet, we've used them on cruise ships and next to hotels where you can barely hear the noise, you wouldn't even know that it's on."
Brisbane City Council planning boss Julian Simmonds said council would assess the application to determine the suitability for the site to accommodate an indoor sporting activity once all documentation was lodged with the council.
"Chermside Shopping Centre is one of our major retail, transport and lifestyle hubs in Brisbane, and an indoor skydiving centre will only add to the variety of active leisure activities on offer," he said.
"This would be a city-first for daredevils of any age."
iFLY opened their first indoor skydiving facility in Orlando, Florida in 1999 and has since grown to about 65 locations across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and now Australia.
Scentre Group, who owns Westfield shopping centres, was approached for comment.
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