Blacktown. Attracting 'high order' jobs

Blacktown City Council hopes to boost employment with a plan which will include a business park, multi-storey office blocks and an investment strategy it hopes will attract thousands of "high-order" jobs. "Our plan is deliberately bold. We seek to create a corridor totalling 17 hectares of land for future commercial office space within a traditional CBD setting," mayor, Alan Pendleton, said. "The Blacktown city centre is an unknown quantum. Presumptions are still being made about its viability that ignores its long-term potential. Our ground=-breaking plan, when fully implemented, has the capacity to provide employment for up to 40,000 new jobs," he said.