Parramatta. Council endorses $45m project

Council resolved to forward a $45 million redevelopment at the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI), at Westmead, to the Department of Planning. The proposal is for a staged construction, over a 10-15-year period, of a project including laboratories, library, boardrooms and administration areas and underground parking Stage one will be a 6-storey building and stage two a 5-storey building. The project will house an expected 540 people. The total area of the redevelopment will be 17,527 square metres, up from 4,500 square metres currently.