Gledswood Village: Sekisui House to lodge apartment, CBD plans
One of Sydney’s newest suburbs is set to grow up with a $300 million vibrant city-inspired CBD, featuring apartments and boutique dining options, to be proposed in coming weeks.
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One of Sydney’s ‘baby’ suburbs is set to grow up with a $300 million vibrant city-inspired CBD, featuring apartments and boutique dining options, to be proposed in coming weeks.
Buildings rising up to five storeys high with 500 individual apartments will underpin the earmarked commercial and retail heart of Gledswood Hills, a suburb which didn’t exist ten years ago.
The globally-inspired precinct, to be lodged to Camden Council by Japanese-based company Sekisui House, is to be known as Gledswood Village and be part of ‘The Hermitage’ estate.
“It’s a mixed-use precinct which all becomes a social and civic heart for the Hermitage community,” said senior development manager Brent Thompson.
“Fundamentally we want it to become a really vibrant precinct where there is always something going on. Second to that, we want it to really unique and authentic so really different fit-out, a creative use of materials to give it a really different character that will certainly be different to anything in the southwest.”
The precinct will be surrounded by the newly-opened Gledswood Hills Public School, Gledswood Hills Country Club and a Greg Norman-designed golf course in the fast-growing The Hermitage estate.
Mr Thompson said the precinct would not survive without the 500 apartments, which are planned to be delivered in the later stages of the project.
“The apartments provide a critical mass of people to support the businesses underneath,” he said. “It is vital that all the businesses are economically successful.
“Obviously if they are not, they won’t survive so having density around those businesses gives those businesses every opportunity for commercial success.”
Mr Thompson said the project, if approved, would likely be constructed in two stages with the first priority to develop a commercial hub to cater for the existing community, potentially including an aquatic centre, supermarket and child care centre.
Japanese-based Sekisui House.