The owner of Woolloongabba wedding venue The Lussh has revealed she had no fire insurance before an inferno tore through the heritage-listed building last week. Speaking publicly for the first time since last Wednesday’s massive blaze, which tore through the top floor of the 100-year-old Hubert Street events space, Maree Henry also said the devastating fire “could have been prevented”. The roof of the popular Lussh wedding venue collapsed in the massive blaze.
Credit: Reddit The fire broke out in a neighbouring building, one of several surrounding the venue that have been allowed to deteriorate and left open to squatters and vandals. “This was actually the third fire we’d had in two months,” Henry, the founder of Queensland fashion label DISSH, told ABC Radio Brisbane on Monday. “All the buildings around us had been purchased by a developer .
.. [but] these buildings had been abandoned and just allowed to deteriorate,” she said.
While developers have lodged plans for residential towers, as well as restaurants and shops, the state government’s decision not to rebuild the Gabba stadium for the 2032 Olympics has put a cloud over the area. Henry said incidents with squatters staying in the empty buildings had been ongoing, including threats to staff, graffiti, break-ins, and property damage. “The whole environment was quite dangerous,” she said.
“We could be sitting in the backyard and they [squatters] would smash a window out of the top. The glass just wou.
