Environmental activists within Central Coast Council along with Community Environment Network group have highjacked future plans for Central Coast Airport which will it remain little more than an airstrip. Following the appointment of Rik Hart firstly as CEO and then Administrator of Council undertook new revised Master Plan that was expected to be completed by late 2022 early 2023.  Shrouded in secrecy ever since, Council in late December 2023 announced that it would place an entirely...

Business NSW has announced the appointment of Scott Goold as Regional Director Business NSW Central Coast. Mr Goold joins the organisation after three years with the NSW Department of Regional NSW where his most recent appointment was as Deputy Director Regional Development. A resident of the Central Coast he comes to the position with over 30 years’ experience at senior levels with major corporates and for a short time in 2020 was Business Development Manager at Central Coast Council...

Kress a brand well known for its German engineering has been designing and manufacturing electric motors for 93 years, has entered the Australian market establishing its Head Office in the Platinum Building at Erina. Part of global technology and tool manufacturing corporation, Positec, Kress Australia was established in mid-2023.  They have since appointed almost a hundred dealers across the country as well as supplying some of the major national landscaper groups. Kress products incl...

In 2018 when the first Central Coast Council was elected Mayor Jane Smith made the permanent protection of Porters Creek Wetlands covering over 700 hectares from Wyong to Warnervale one of her major goals. She was successful and in 2022 the Wetlands were declared a specified wetland of international importance. The Woolworths Distribution Centre is located in the Warnervale Industrial Park that was developed over twenty years ago and includes Sanitarium Health Foods’ Development and I...

Completed toward the end of 2023, the Brand Group’s Racecourse Industrial Centre at 9 Blackett Street, West Gosford (behind Gosford Racecourse) has seen all 39 units sold prior to completion. The Blackett Street site comprises a total of 1.607 hectares with the developed site occupying 8,813sqm Indicating the demand for industrial units marketing for the project commenced in early 2022 and most were sold off-the-plan within six months. Unit sizes range from 41 – 57 sqm with the...