Parramatta. Soccer at the stadium

Parramatta Stadium could be the home ground for a Western Sydney soccer team. “Our prime objective is to be there. I won’t rest until we have a team in Western Sydney,” said FFA chairman, Frank Lowy, in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. The launch of the team could be October, the paper said,

Region. New business parks proposed

The Western Sydney Parklands Trust has made a submission to the Department of Planning & Infrastructure for business parks at Eastern Creek and Horsley Drive. The sites could attract more than $200 million private capital investment and provide more than 1100 full time jobs and a further 750 construction jobs, according to Suelleen Fitzgerald, director, of the Western Sydney Parklands Trust. The Eastern Creek site, in the Blacktown LGA, would target retail business, while the Horsley Drive site, in the Fairfield LGA is for high-tech businesses.

Newington. CEO based in Las Vegas

Daniel Gladstone, CEO, of Ainsworth Games Technology, with its headquarters and poker-machine design facility based, at Newington, will spend the next 12 months in Las Vegas launching the company’s poker machines in the United States. The company opened a 4650-square-metre site in Las Vegas, late last year, replacing a smaller facility in Florida.

Fairfield. $8.6 million paid for facility

The WA-based Pascoe’s, one of the largest Australian companies within the household and industrial chemicals category, has paid $8.6 million for a 12,056-square-metre manufacturing facility, at Farifield East, in which it has been operating on a long-term lease.