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    Endeavour Energy power workers are pushing for a 24 per cent pay rise.

    Threat to customer safety cited in call to end sparkie work bans

    Endeavour Energy has launched legal action to stop six months of industrial action, as other power workers join to form a triple threat to major projects in NSW.

    • David Marin-Guzman, Campbell Kwan and Angela Macdonald-Smith

    July

    Sydney Metro chief executive Peter Regan and Transport Minister Jo Haylen in front of the entrance to the Barangaroo metro station.

    Sydney metro line delayed days before opening

    The National Rail Safety Regulator is yet to sign off on the $21.6 billion project’s latest section, just five days before the state government said it would open to passsengers.

    • Staff reporters

    December 2023

    Banking executive Angela MacMillan who has faced hour-long commutes on a usual 15-minute trip since the Rozelle Interchange opened

    Rozelle interchange ‘diabolical’ as workers pay the price

    Emergency roadworks are under way to fix traffic snarls at the Rozelle interchange, which have persisted into a second week.

    • Samantha Hutchinson

    October 2023

    An artist’s impression of the Waterloo South redevelopment, which includes thousands of social and private apartments to capitalise on the future Metro train station.

    Plan to build more Sydney homes near train stations is ‘imminent’

    Anti-development councils could be bypassed with the establishment of new development precincts around Sydney train stations.

    • Aaron Patrick

    February 2023

    Reference designs for the 17-level residential tower, left, and 21-level commercial tower, centre, developments for Crows Nest metro rail station in Sydney. The shapes in white outline indicate heights of future buildings envisaged in the precinct. 

    Developer plans $1b project over Sydney metro station

    The developer says a five-year settlement window gives it time to ride out current uncertainty and complete in what will again be a booming apartment market.

    • Michael Bleby
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    Daniel Mookhey should get his priorities right if he intends to deliver for the people of NSW.

    NSW Labor declares ‘no reckless spending’ as it vows to scrap TAHE

    The NSW shadow treasurer has vowed to bring a $40 billion swathe of public assets - including the state’s trains - back onto the state’s balance sheet.

    • Samantha Hutchinson

    October 2022

    Systra global CEO Pierre Verzat (left) and chief operating officer Jean-Charles Vollery are looking for acquisitions in Australia.

    France’s Systra eyes Australian rail acquisitions

    The French engineering group aims to quadruple staff numbers as it prepares to bid for big projects including a potential east coast fast rail link, says global chief executive Pierre Verzat.

    • Jenny Wiggins

    June 2022

    NSW Treasurer Matt Kean

    Matt Kean to deliver a budget that ‘pushes the boundaries’

    The firebrand MP said the scale of the government’s reform agenda wouldn’t shrink even as inflation rises and labour and skills shortages bite.

    • Samantha Hutchinson

    August 2021

    175 Walker St, North Sydney, planned development from Avenor, August 2021

    Five-year battle to build luxury North Sydney apartments almost over

    Avenor has been trying to get planning approval for a key site since 2017 and is almost there following state government intervention.

    • Martin Kelly

    May 2021

    The property at 5 Hunter Street,  Sydney, which is set to be acquired by NSW government to make way for a new Sydney West Metro station.

    Sydney Metro West buyouts to create CBD strata office price increases

    Sydney CBD strata office prices could rise by up to 25 per cent over the next two years due to compulsory building acquisitions linked to the Sydney Metro West.

    • Martin Kelly

    October 2020

    The hotel has traded throughout the pandemic, but at low occupancies.

    Capitol Square hotel sold to Malaysian investors for $26m

    The Capitol Square Hotel was last valued in February at $28 million with the sale to the Mahs reflecting about a 7 per cent decline in valuation since the pandemic.

    • Larry Schlesinger

    June 2020

    Jessica Mellor: "I think I connect with my team much better by being myself."

    Meet the 2020 BOSS Young Executives

    The coronavirus meant the annual program to find Australia's top executives under 35 was a virtual affair, but this year's winners were up to the task.

    • Sally Patten

    February 2020

    Macquarie's real estate deal of a lifetime

    When the Sydney Metro project was announced, Macquarie Group sensed an opportunity quite literally under its nose.

    • Stephen Todd and Matthew Drummond
    Macquarie’s Michael Silman and Sydney Metro’s Tim Parker in the new station under construction beneath Martin Place.

    Macquarie in prime position on Sydney metro

    The infrastructure manager is in prime spot with ownership of several buildings above what is shaping up as a new transport hub in Sydney's CBD.

    • Matthew Drummond and Ingrid Fuary-Wagner

    December 2019

    Rebel Property and Everest Property will develop a new 35-storey hotel designed by Crone at 375 Pitt Street in Sydney with over 300 rooms, on a mixed-use podium with a private laneway creation and activation.

    Sydney's emerging mid-town to get $250m hotel

    Completion is planned for early 2023 and the developers aim to tap the growing demand of an area undergoing an investment surge.

    • Michael Bleby
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    October 2019

    Artist's impression of stage 1 - Toga's Wicks Place - of more than 800 units to come at Victoria Road, Marrickville. 

    Toga, Danias kick off first project for 800 new units in Marrickville

    New apartment project to launch residential development in the Victoria Road Precinct of Marrickville, which is emerging as Sydney's "metro" suburb.

    • Su-Lin Tan
    Artists' impression of South Tower, or 39 Martin Place,  at Macquarie Group's Martin Place metro station development. 

    Macquarie Group to sell Martin Place metro precinct tower

    Macquarie Group will steer its own expressions of interest campaign for the prime tower at 39 Martin Place.

    • Su-Lin Tan

    August 2019

    Plenary Group CEO Paul Oppenheim wants to increase the investment group's equity stake in the Sydney Metro.

    'We'd love to invest more': Plenary hails success of Sydney metro

    Infrastructure group Plenary wants to increase its 10 per cent equity stake in the new Sydney metro.

    • Jenny Wiggins
    Costs are already escalating sharply on the $11 billion Melbourne Metro.

    Tunnelling the biggest risk in $288b infrastructure pipeline

    Infrastructure executives are worried they can't deliver projects because they can't find enough people to build them.

    • Jenny Wiggins

    July 2019

    Parisian Metro operator RATP Dev wants to run metros in Sydney.

    Vive le metro: France's RATP joins bidding fray for Sydney metro

    Paris' Metro operator has teamed up with John Holland to bid for Sydney Metro West and Greater West.

    • Jenny Wiggins