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BLENDING ART AND COFFEE
Artist smells aroma of success
By Nini Laxamana
FIVE years ago, artist Greg Bridges made a bold experiment: He opened an art gallery/cafe in an unpromising location in suburbia.
DYLDAM SECURES ST LEONARDS SITE
PARRAMATTA developer, Dyldam, has paid $120 million to the Winten Group for a prime spot in St Leonards with the capacity for 777 apartments, a 300-square-metre supermarket and a 2600SM retail and office precinct.
CLUB MARCONI'S $12M CLUB VISION
CLUB Marconi, at Bossley Park, plans to build a $12 million Macarthur Sports and Community Club, next to the Narellan Sports Hub. Construction is expected to commence in 2017.
MASTER-PLANNED RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY
SEKISUI House Australia has acquired an 8.1-hectare site located beside the fairways of the Castle Hill Country Club in Baulkham Hills, to develop a master-planned residential community. It was acquired for $210 million from property developer Tony Merhi. The mixed-use masterplan includes 1300 apartments.
APPROVAL FOR 220 UNITS AT KELLYVILLE
ABOUT 220 residential units could be built in three apartment blocks, four to eight storeys high, on a 4.8-hectare site, at 5-9 Withers Street, Kellyville, following approval by the Sydney West Joint Regional Planning Panel.
FIRE AND RESCUE ACADEMY RELOCATED
THE Fire & Rescue NSW Academy to be relocated to a six-hectare site on Mamre Road, at Erskine Park, is expected to employ around 150 staff, and see up to 200 additional firefighters and trainees on site on any given day. The new state-of-the-art firefighter training facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2017. It will replace existing training college at Alexandria, which is more than 40 years old and about one-third the size of the new site.
MCDONALDS PLANNED FOR KELLYVILLE
A MCDONALDS restaurant is planned at 133-149 Samantha Riley Drive, Kellyville, following a reduction in operating hours to 5am-midnight daily following community concerns, including, noise, light spill and traffic. The restaurant will be built as part of a shop-top housing development now under construction.
