The petition, created by \u2018Beerwah Co-Op and Simpson St Servo\u2019, appealed for understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe believe that a car park is not worth the loss of over 50 jobs and massive disruption to the community through the loss of a major business like the co-op.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petition states that the co-op serves 30,000 customers per month and is a major contributor to local clubs and schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) spokesperson said the co-op was on state-owned land that is \u201chighly likely\u201d to be impacted by the rail project, and the department and the co-op board were discussing options including relocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Board of Coochin Creek Fruitgrowers Co-operative James Stretch told Sunshine Coast News<\/em> that it must survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Beerwah Fruit Growers Co-operative is a member-owned cooperative that has served the community for nearly 90 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUnlike businesses focused on external shareholders, our proceeds are returned to members through discounts or reinvested into the business and community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Beerwah Fruit Growers Co-operative is a member-owned cooperative that has served the community for nearly 90 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":345491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,47],"tags":[12394,7465,2684],"class_list":["post-345490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queensland-rail","category-rail-news","tag-beerwah","tag-queensland","tag-sunshine-coast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345493,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345490\/revisions\/345493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SCN08016-co-op-2.jpg\")