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Welcome to the first issue of CCBR for 2023. As we move into the New Year and try to crystal ball how it will turn out there are some positive factors – but not enough to get the Central Coast economy moving. In Gosford, by the end of March there will be three major developments under construction: StHilliers’ Waterfront, ALAND’s Archibald and Alceon’s Rumbalara projects. The University of Newcastle’s new Campus should start construction in the latter part of ...

  Yes, well in many cases it really has been. In April the Central Coast became part of a Six Cities Mega region, taking in all the three Sydney regions plus Wollongong and Newcastle. The idea being that such a mega region could look something like San Francisco’s Bay Area, the Netherlands’ Randstad, or the Pearl River Delta. Announced by Premier Perrottet, the idea is certainly visionary. However, one must ask, how will the Central Coast fare in this new world? After ...

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...

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...

Over the last few weeks of August and into early September the Central Coast has had the good fortune to view the influence of a unique industry group, Central Coast Industry Connect. The manufacturing sector across the region employs almost 9,000 people and comprises some of Australia’s leading manufacturers. There are some who think and say that manufacturing in Australia has no future. Well the Central Coast Industry Festival is proof that they are wrong. CCIC was set up ten years...