Region. Growth agenda event

Clr Alan Pendleton, Mayor, Blacktown City Council, Mark Cuddy, general manager, Industrial, DEXUS Property Group, and Paul Brennan, managing director, ASP Group, will speak on how councils are setting a platform for prosperous communities, opportunities for jobs growth, and how business is grappling with challenges and opportunities, in Western Sydney. The event, Western Sydney- The Growth Agenda, a partnership between the Property Council of Australia and Western Sydney Business Connection, will be held at WatervieW in Bicentennial Park, on August 28.

Parramatta. City's vital role

Some of the state’s prominent industry leaders discussed at an economic development forum earlier, in Parramatta, this year what was required to firmly cement Parramatta as Sydney’s “central” city. “It was universally agreed that Parramatta, and Western Sydney, had a key role to play when it came to managing the future growth of wider Sydney. We established that in order for Sydney to evolve as a sustainable and successful global city, infrastructure investment and economic development in Western Sydney was vital,” said Clr John Chedid, when stepping down as lord mayor of Parramatta.