Central Coast Industry Connect (CCIC), the Central Coast’s lead manufacturing industry body, was pleased to see that $17.2M had been allocated to the region, for its Food Manufacturing and Innovation hub in the Federal Budget. A strategic business case for the hub was developed by CCIC late last year with the assistance of Food Innovation Australia Limited and major industry partner TrendPac. The business case had support from regional stakeholders including Regional Development Austra...

NSW Opposition Leader, Chris Minns was in Gosford on Saturday 22nd to announce that when in Government they would provide the $8.5 million funding that Central Coast Council requires to progress to Stage 2 for the Infrastructure Investment Framework that will see the Gosford Waterfront redeveloped. Mr Minns said that it was time for the Central Coast to get their fair share of government funding and to make sure that private investment comes into the community. “The Central Coast has ...

With a State Election due in March 2023 CCBR is reviewing the support that Central Coast has received over the twelve years that the Liberals have been running this state. Not much is the short answer. Apart from $600 million for Gosford Hospital, a $20 million contribution to the $72 million University of Newcastle Central Coast Medical School and Research Institute, $200 million on a new Wyong Hospital, $16 million for the new Warnervale Primary School, $640 million on major roads, $42 mi...

Held at the end of August the inaugural Central Coast Industry Festival’s highly successful Workshops programme (reported on in CCBR August) was succeeded by an equally successful three-day Expo at which some of the region’s leading manufacturers exhibited their products. Forty Central Coast manufacturers exhibited at the Expo plus a further fourteen sponsors. Over 800 visitors from business, the local community along with 200 invited high school students from local schools atte...

It is an ill wind that blows no good, someone once said. And maybe the collapse of the first Central Coast Council may have a silver lining to it. The announcement, in late September that Council would progress the work they have obviously been working on for some time with the redevelopment of the Gosford Waterfront is an opportunity that cannot be allowed to get side-tracked like some many in the past. Gosford’s waterfront is not only a major project for the city’s renewal bu...