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Cameron said Pivot City took about two years from its conception to come together, including a complex planning process on a sensitive site and working within the limitations of the space, with the Federal Mills precinct opening first about six years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what our business does – take these iconic sites and create opportunities,\u201d Andrew added. \u201cAnd sometimes that\u2019s having a bit of foresight for what opportunities are there, but then quite often it\u2019s also taking the sites through a process where you adapt to changing needs and opportunities as they arise.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where we have a slight difference in that we’re constantly moving sites forward; it’\u2019s not necessarily so much \u2018let\u2019s do it in one defined six-month period of redevelopment and not touch it again\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrew said technology companies were among the first to express interest in moving in, but the precinct had shifted away from its initial positioning as a \u201ctech park\u201d towards being a business and innovation hub that was integrating engineering and industry firms and taking advantage of opportunities such as the Spirit of Tasmania terminal being built 600 metres away.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrying to connect the manufacturing and knowledge industries together is where we\u2019re seeing a large part of our demand at the moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the next generation of industry in Geelong\u2019s north that\u2019s moving here. We\u2019re finding that there are businesses that have an administrative component here but then a component at the Ford site.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A business and innovation precinct in North Geelong has been put up in lights by the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA). The 11-hectare district is growing to house 50,000sqm of workspaces across two neighbouring sites in North Geelong – Federal Mills, created in a 1915 woollen mills; and Glass House, inside a 1934 glass […]<\/p>\n