The 2024 Local Government elections will be held next year on the 14th of September bringing to a close three years during which Central Coast Council has been under Administration. It goes without saying that the few short years in which the amalgamated Council was run by those fifteen elected councillors headed up by Mayor Jane Smith was a disaster beyond belief. Of course, it was a disaster waiting to happen, with fifteen councillors from five disparate areas called Wards and most with n...

South Korea’s National Pension Service has placed its 50 per cent interest in Erina Fair shopping centre on the market through agents CBRE. Along with SKNPS Erina Fair is co-owned by Lend Lease’s Australian Prime Property Fund having acquired its interest around ten years ago from GPT Group when the centre was worth about $800 million. Erina Fair is one of the largest regional shopping centres in Australia being rated #21 out of ninety-one Big Gun shopping centres with a Gross L...

While the rest of the Central Coast languishes, Gosford is undergoing a construction boom with 18 cranes operating on sites within a kilometre radius of the CBD. The number of cranes in an area is an indication of the state of the construction industry’s workload in each location and the economic benefits they bring. Food businesses in Gosford are reporting strong sales from the large number of workers on these sites. Additionally, these projects will see over 1,400 new residential u...

It is well known that the Central Coast is not generating enough jobs to support the growing population, and this has been the case for over forty years. Businesses in Sydney and elsewhere eye the region as an ideal location to operate from thereby creating employment opportunities. To create a better lifestyle for the people of the region, business and investors need to be encouraged to locate their operations here thereby growing the regional economy. However, in recent years it has beco...