Park planned for Macquarie Park business workers
A CENTRAL park planned for Macquarie Park is a big deal for the business community.
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A CENTRAL park planned for Macquarie Park is a big deal for the business community.
That is the view of Ryde Council planners, who have lodged a planning proposal for the 7,000sqm park at Waterloo Rd.
A disused building occupies the government-owned site. Internet service provider TPG has offices to its west.
In the proposal, the council planners said more open space was needed to attract businesses to the suburb.
“Space for workers to eat and recreate is a vital factor in attracting high quality commercial tenants to Macquarie Park,” they said.
“This open space will ultimately act as a catalyst for further development and jobs growth.”
Ryde Business Forum president Tony Abboud said the park would complement the night economy the council and businesses were trying to create at Macquarie Park.
“If you’re going to have a night economy and thousands of people in concrete structures in a tight area, you need to accommodate them with open space,” he said.
He believed the park would be a great outcome for the community.
“We’ll have green space where there would have been a building,” he said.
The park will soon sit between the North Ryde and Herring Priority Precincts – special areas specified by the State Government for highrise housing development.
Whem the huge Ryde Garens and Lachlian’s Line projects are complete, more than 8400 new homes will have been built in the two priority precincts.
It is estimated that almost 20,000 new resients will join the 50,000 emplyees in the Macquarie Park Business Precinct and about 45,000 people who come and go from Macquarie University.
The park has been a long time coming.
The State Government allocated the council $6 million for the park in 2014.
The park is due to be provided next year.
The public can see and comment on the plans on the council’s website before June 1.
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