APPROVAL FOR WAREHOUSE
THE Department of Planning and Environment has approved an application from Frasers Property Australia to build an 18,559-square-metre warehouse for Martin Brower, a global logistics company, in the Horsley Drive Business Park. The warehouse will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week The project i8s expected to generate around 300 jobs during construction and 250 full-time jobs during operation,
EIS ON EXHIBITION
THE environmental impact study for the controversial Moorebank Intermodal Company’s road-rail freight facility at Moorebank is on public exhibition until April 6 Moorebank Intermodal Company and Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance have agreed to combine their adjoining sites to create a single freight precinct at Moorebank.
TOWER NEAR TOWERS
QUEENSLAND Investment Corporation proposes to build a 22-storey residential tower above its Castle Towers Shopping Centre as part of the centre’s $900 million redevelopment. The centre has a gross floor area of 138,575 square metres and an annual turnover of $670 million.
OFFICE BUILDING BOUGHT
PITT Street Real Estate Partners has bought a 7124-square-metre office building City View Estate in Pennant Hills for $25 million. The group, a subsidiary of Washington H. Soul Pattinson, bought a neighbouring office block, for over $40 million last year enabling it to hold over 1.15 hectares close to Pennant Hills Station.
300 CONSTRUCTION JOBS
THE former federal government’s quarantine station at Eastern Creek will be transformed in a state-of-the-art 22-hectare, $220 million industrial estate with over 120,000 square metres of floor space. The Calibre Estate project, in Wallgrove Road, could generate approximately 300 construction jobs and has the potential to employ 700 full time employees once operational.
SAFARI EXPERIENCE AT ZOO
ABOUT 500 animals at the proposed $36 million Sydney Zoo, to be built within the Western Sydney Parklands, are expected to attract some 800,000 visitors annually to the 16.5-hectare site when it opens in 2017. It promises to give them a “safari” experience.
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FAST RAIL OPINION
Airport rail must connect the West
By Penrith Mayor Cr Karen McKeown
LAST Friday Parramatta Council and the Sydney Business Chamber will unveil plans for a new fast rail connection between Sydney, Parramatta and Badgerys Creek Airport.
