A VICTIM of the Kingston Butter Factory upgrade finally has some good news.
The Kingston Butter Factory Arts and Craft cooperative has a new home at Slacks Creek Progress Hall, 151 Barbarella Drive, Springwood, where they’ll this week (from Monday to Saturday, 9am-3pm) be offering all guests a free tea or coffee and a biscuit “to dunk”.
Before refurbishments started on the factory building precinct, that was where the co-op was trading.
Forced to operate in a building next to the Logan Central Library while the precinct turned into a construction zone, the not-for-profit group was always under a belief that they would be able to return when work on the new cultural precinct was finished.
It was a promise delivered to them by councillors who were in power before being dismissed and their council thrown into administration.
Then the goal posts moved. The new cultural precinct wasn’t the right place for the co-op, according to a new council. That left the group of about 15 artists looking for a new home.
They have not been trading since before Christmas, but will be open from 9am-3pm, Monday to Saturday (excluding public holidays).
The hall has been given a splash of paint, and the team from the co-op has been working hard to make the area welcoming for bus loads of tourists who once walked through the doors of the butter factory.
