As we move toward the climax of another Federal Election business owners need to think seriously about their future under a union controlled Labor Government. As always the unions will finance most of the ALP’s campaign and of course that means there will be payback.  First cab off the rank will be the treatment of casual workers and gig workers. The unions have been campaigning against casual and gig workers for years. Only a few months ago they had a win in the High Court with...

Mingara Leisure Group has announced plans to build a 82-room hotel adjacent to its club facility at Tumbi Umbi. The $21 million hotel will be the culmination of Mingara’s original site masterplan to locate a hotel on the site when they moved to their new premises some thirty years ago. Mingara CEO, Paul Barnett said, “After undertaking the appropriate due diligence to explore the feasibility of the project, we have partnered with a team of specialist consultants to design a hote...

Alceon Group, one of Australia’s leading privately-owned financier and investment companies with extensive experience in real estate development, is about to start construction on one of the largest luxury residential developments to be undertaken on the Central Coast in Gosford. To be known as Rumbalara and built on the highest point in Gosford overlooking Brisbane Water the development is on the edge of the Rumbalara Reserve at 87-89 John Whiteway Drive on a former sandstone quarry s...

The NSW Government has confirmed  the University of Newcastle as the preferred partner to deliver a Gosford university campus on the former Mitre10 site in Mann Street, Gosford. An announcement two years in the making. 11th April saw Minister for Infrastructure and Cities the Hon Rob Stokes MP announced the campus. Where’s the money? - Minister Stokes’ announcement, while welcome, failed to mention UON’s proposal for the Mitre10 site plus $18 million in funding to mat...

With demand for healthcare clinicians on the Central Coast continuing to rise at rapid rates, Cornerstone Group has announced it is seeking approval for the development of a $30 million state-of-the-art health building to respond to community needs. Cornerstone Group Managing Director, Simon Heazlewood, said recent research by Colliers International uncovered data showing that on the Central Coast, demand for several health professions, including medical oncologists, paediatricians, and card...