Penrith. Defence leases CBD space

The Defence Department will relocate some staff from its Orchard Hills facility to the Penrith CBD, where it will lease 4000 square metres, at 311 High Street, because of an organisational restructure and a requirement for modern accommodation, with transport facilities, a Defence Department spokeswoman told the Penrith Star

Campbelltown. Housing projects in the city

Landcom is expected to commence, this year, an 800-home project surrounding the UWS Campbelltown campus Landcom’s project in the city are nearing completion, including Park Centre, 90 per cent, and Garden Gates, 80 per cent. Elsewhere, Civic engineering and haulage company, TRN Group, is relocating from Spring Farm to a 3-hectare site in Dart West’s Central Hills Business park project.

North Ryde. $25 million research funding

Macquarie University will receive more than $25 million in funding this year under the Commonwealth Government’s Research Block Grants scheme. The money is part of the government’s $3.1 billion funding boost for research and innovation allocated in last year’s budget.