Key insights from The Macquarie Park Summit ‘23
Connect MPID’s recent Macquarie Park Summit revealed exciting changes - including an additional 20,000 jobs in our innovation district.
The Summit flagged the slated expansion of Sydney Metro in 2024 as a major milestone. This new transport mode will improve the connectivity and accessibility of our postcode, enabling customers to travel direct from Barangaroo to Macquarie Park in only 18 minutes.
Connect MPID Chair, Charlotte Stratton called this new infrastructure a “game-changer”:
“Strengthening connections to Sydney Airport will open up Macquarie Park to interstate and international visitors and provide greater exposure to our workplaces of the future”
Macquarie University also featured prominently at the Summit, putting the spotlight on its incoming $96 million RNA research and pilot manufacturing facility and expanded DeepTech Incubator.
Addressing the Summit via video link, Vice Chancellor and President of Macquarie University, Professor S Bruce Dowton, hailed the University and the Park’s alignment:
“Macquarie Park and the University share a singular history in being the first Innovation District in Australia. A number of initiatives are underway at the University or have recently been announced which have the potential to play an important role in further converging the interest of all of us involved in Macquarie Park.”
The RNA facility - the first of its kind in our State - promises to elevate Macquarie Park’s reputation as a centre for health and pharmaceutical research and industry.
Likewise, the expansion of the University’s Incubator will offer additional lab space for Macquarie Park start-ups to test their ideas, in turn growing our area’s innovative culture.
The Summit also shared an overview of the increasing number of modern workplaces being built in Macquarie Park. From M_Park by Stockland, to John Holland’s Macquarie Square and Macquarie Exchange by Frasers X Winten Property Group, plus wide-ranging plans by Baptist Care for their Macquarie Park site.
Speaking as part of an engaging ‘fireside chat’ with leaders from across the Park, CEO of the City of Ryde Council, Wayne Rylands, hailed 2023 as an important moment in Macquarie Park’s history:
“We've seen ourselves for quite an amount of time as an Innovation District, from the time the University came here in the 1960s and the business that moved into this area in that time.
What's happening right now is that we're looking at that reinvention of how we keep moving as an Innovation District, and how we build on the types of business that are already here.
As a Council we want to help facilitate the additional business that we want to see in this area… …it's why we're very serious about partnering very closely with the University, we're very serious about partnering with a lot of the business, and we're very serious about partnering with the large property owners because there's there's not a small block of land that exists in Macquarie Park.”
The Macquarie Park Summit was organised by Connect Macquarie Park Innovation District, who act as a unified voice for Macquarie Park.
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