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Tuggerah based construction company, North Construction & Building has been named Large Commercial Construction Business of the Year – Annual Turnover over $50m at Master Builders Australia’s 2023 National Business Excellence Awards last month. The National Business Excellence Awards celebrates outstanding achievements in financial management, business operations, customer service, innovation, business improvement and resilience initiatives, and corporate social responsibilit...

The first Covid Central Coast Supply Chain and Logistics Forum since the onset of covid was held in early August and saw over sixty representatives from local manufacturing and logistics businesses attend. The event was hosted by Australian Beverage Contract Filling Pty Ltd and Hawkesbury Brewing Co in their new Tap House alongside their impressive manufacturing plant at Lisarow with a tour of their facility following presentations. Thirty-eight local businesses were represented at the brea...

The NSW Government has formally approved the $58 million University of Newcastle Central Coast Campus, which will be built on the site of the former Mitre 10 building at 305 Mann Street, Gosford. University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor Alex Zelinsky AO said, “We’re thrilled to have marked this milestone and have a formal green light for this critical project, which will allow students across the region to build their skills and earn a degree without leaving the Central Coast. We ...

Supermarket giant Woolworths has been identified as the buyer of the Dunnet Properties owned Lakeside Shopping Centre at The Entrance through its property arm Fabcot Pty Ltd (See CCBR August 2023). Fabcot is reported to have paid just over $51 million for the 2.14ha site with frontages to The Entrance Road, Dening Street and Taylor and Warragal Roads and is undoubtedly a Key Development Site in The Entrance. The site is mostly undeveloped except for the shopping centre with a Gross Lettable...

Central Coast Council has redirected a substantial part of a State Government Grant of $1.4 million from the Regional Housing Fund for the planning and design of sewer and storm water basin infrastructure for the Wadalba East Land Release Area (WELR). The WELR comprises an area of some 143 ha of land with potential for 1,500 homes, originally announced by Wyong Council in 2012 and finally rezoned in  December 2020 and becoming effective on 31 July 2021. It included a Wildlife Corridor o...