BEST Opportunity as Blacktown Sportspark Reimagined

Located in the centre of Greater Sydney, the BEST Hub and Lodge are within the Blacktown International Sportspark in Blacktown City.

Blacktown City’s current population of 403,000 is forecast to grow to 612,000 by 2041, which also places it in the heart of western Sydney, where the population is forecast to grow to 3 million by 2036, absorbing two thirds of the growth in the Sydney region. 

Innovation will be led by the BEST Hub partners, Blacktown City Council, the Australian Catholic University, Australian Football League, Sydney West Sports Medicine and WentWest, along with the major sporting codes, teams and organisations that call the Sportspark home. 

Facilities inside the BEST Hub include:

• multidisciplinary treatment rooms

• biomechanics and physiology laboratories

• strength and conditioning gym

• aquatic recovery centre

• environmental chamber

• meeting rooms, and

• an auditorium and function space.

The Lodge 

Athletes, coaches, friends and family that come to the Sportspark in their thousands from all over NSW and Australia now have an affordable, purpose-built, academy-style accommodation that provides 100 beds over 37 rooms.

EOI Development areas 

There are three mixed-use development areas available within Blacktown International Sportspark:

Development area 1 

Area 1 is situated to the west of Blacktown Olympic Boulevard and is flanked to the west by a large carpark with about 392 spaces, to the north by Endurance Drive and the under- construction BEST building.

Blacktown Olympic Avenue is the main access route into the Sportspark and is accessed from Eastern Road. The site is about 8485 square metres. 

Indicative massing studies show the potential for three built forms each with three storeys in this parcel of land occupying frontage to Blacktown Olympic Avenue and-or Endurance Drive. The total gross floor area yield of the three buildings is likely to approximate 15466 square metres. 

Development area 2 

Area 2 is situated with frontage to Blacktown Olympic Avenue and Eastern Road. The site is about 9445 square metres. Indicative massing studies show the potential for one larger building with six storeys occupying frontage to Eastern Road with a gross floor area of 18,176sq m and two smaller plots each of three storeys and a gross floor area of about 4000sq m with frontage to Blacktown Olympic Avenue.

Development area 3 

Area 3 is situated with frontage to Eastern Road and is about 22,805 square metres. The area has a gas easement running through it, lending itself to uses focusing on the use of green space and landscape treatments for sporting activity.

To express your interest to invest in BEST Hub Stage 2 at the Blacktown International Sportspark go to:  www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au/BEST

Expressions of interest close 26 October 2022.

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