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The Central Coast is well along the way to cementing its place as a leading Food Innovation Region with the opening in March of the refurbished Food Science Laboratory at the University of Newcastle's Central Coast Campus Ourimbah. Refurbished at a cost of $1 million, as part of the UON's $2.6 million teaching space investment in the Campus, the Laboratory was officially opened by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alex Zelinsky AO along with Faculty of Science Pro Vic-Chancellor Professo...

Central Coast property developers, Gibbens Group have awarded the contract for the construction of their $26 million office building project at North Wyong to Erina based builder Stevens Construction. Construction will commence in June/July with completion in June 2021 and will create 350 jobs during construction. Gibbens Group CEO, Matthew Gibbens, said the company had executed a long-term lease with ING for 3,600 sqm of space over three levels including the ground floor for a call cent...

East Gosford based national real estate training and systems development company, Real Estate Academy, has joined forces with Australian PropTech innovator, Realtair. The acquisition by Realtair, a middleware platform serving the real estate industry, was announced on March 24. It represents a deal that places the company at the forefront of progressive technology development and delivery in Australian real estate. Realtair CEO and Founder, Peter Matthews, said they had been working wit...

Central Coast Council has leased space at the Nexus Business Hub in Wyong to accommodate their IT and Business Development staff. Negotiations for the lease of the vacant top floor of Nexus took place in late 2019 with Council moving in during January.  It is understood that about 100 staff will be based at Nexus. Commenting on the move Henry Kendall Group Managing Director Damien Wilde said, "both Council staff and Nexus members will benefit from shared learnings at the Campu...

Chamberlain Group is expecting output of their Grifco Poultry Winch, which is made at their West Gosford factory, to increase by 12% and generate $2.5 million worth of sales following their attendance at the IPPE (International Production and Processing Expo) in Atlanta in January. The IPPE is the world's largest expo for the Poultry Industry with 25,000 people from around the world visiting. The Grifco Poultry Winch is the leading poultry winch in the Australian market and was show...