A site at Chelmer was originally proposed but after it was inundated in the 1974 Brisbane flood an alternative site at Kelvin Grove ( originally part of Gona Barracks ) was selected . This land had been excised from the Barracks site in the early 1970s when a right-of-way was created for a proposed North-Western freeway . The bulk of the Barracks site was on the western side of the proposed freeway , fronting Kelvin Grove Road . Land on the eastern side of the freeway alignment , with frontages to Victoria Park Road on either side of Blamey Street , was gazetted as a Reserve for a Technical College . The land on the northern side of Blamey Street was intended as the site for a new Technical Correspondence School . The proposed freeway did not go ahead after the Commonwealth government withdrew funds for urban freeways , and by mid-1975 that land on the southern side of Blamey Street was selected for the first Brisbane Hall of Residence
1974 Brisbane flood
1974 Brisbane flood
TAFE Hall of Residence, Kelvin Grove