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An inner city suburb of the Gold Coast City is the the centre of the Gold Coast business district with a mixture of small and large business, stretching across 4,000 business activities with over 8,000 registered businesses. It is also one of the Gold Coast's oldest suburbs and boasts a superb range of established gardens and giant leafy trees. Many regard Southport's residential areas as being the Gold Coast's Toorak / North Shore. The newly developed Southport Broadwater Parklands provides the suburb with a sheltered seaside precinct to rival Brisbane's Southbank.
Southport is the hub of the Gold Coast's specialist medical enclave with over 200 medical specialists, two large hospitals and several high rise medical office buildings. (see Gold Coast Health Care)
Southport is also home to the Gold Coast's legal (see Gold Coast Lawyers) and business centers with over 8,000 individual businesses covering 4,000 business types. (see the Gold Coast Business Directory)
The streets are 'green scaped', the people are friendly, the sky is usually bright blue, the air is clean and the patrolled surf beach is 2 minutes away by car. (see Main Beach )
Southport boasts several large parks and is locally 'famous' for it's leash free dog park bordering the Nerang river where up to 30 friendly dogs and their owners (parents) frolic each evening.
Many of Southport's 15,000 residents walk to work in the Southport commercial area and there is a very strong home-office-business component.
Southport is home to two of the Gold Coast's oldest public schools. TSS 'The Southport School' an all boys school with expansive grounds and riverfront position and St Hilda's.
Southport's residences range from houses, villas, small unit blocks providing low density living -a pleasant relaxed lifestyle well guarded by a loose network of local activists who come together when Southport's amenity is threatened.
Southport is rapidly becoming one of the Gold Coast's real estate development hot spots with 11 highrise buildings scheduled to be built during the next 12 - 18 months. These new high-rises such as Brighton On Broadwater and Pivotal Point are a mixture of residential and commercial buildings and can be seen at www.RealtyGoldCoast.com
