MIRVAC and Australian Retirement Trust (ART) have reached practical completion on their first warehouse at the circa $660 million Aspect Industrial Estate in Kemps Creek.
The 34,000sqm facility at Aspect in Western Sydney was purpose-built for CEVA Logistics and is the first to be completed at the 56-hectare logistics estate.
The estate is the size of 47 football fields and will provide 247,000 square metres of high-quality warehouse and office space and was the was the first site to be approved under the new planning regime for the Mamre Road precinct that was rezoned for employment uses under the NSW Government’s Planning System Acceleration Program in 2020.
“We are delighted to welcome CEVA, one of the world leaders in third party logistics to Aspect, the first facility to be delivered in the Mamre Road precinct under the new planning regime. The Aspect estate is targeted to be Mirvac’s first carbon neutral (embodied carbon) industrial development,” said Richard Seddon, CEO of investments at Mirvac.
Aspect will have a focus on flexibility, functionality, technology and sustainability and will create a market leading employment precinct for Western Sydney.
With the construction phase of the estate set to provide over 500 jobs and 1,200 operational jobs over the course of its development.
“The delivery of the first warehouse at Aspect has contributed critical construction and operational jobs as well as investment and enabling infrastructure to boost the economic development of Western Sydney – supporting living and working in this community where around one in nine Australians currently reside.”
The warehouse also aligns with CEVA’s commitments to sustainability and goal to reach net zero by 2050.
With the distribution centre boasting more than 1,510 solar panels and a 830kW photovoltaic system with battery for renewable power production.
“All of our new warehouses in Australia have been designed to put sustainability and technology at the forefront of our operations, and establishing our warehouse at Aspect couldn’t have been better for us,” said Michael Harich, country head of logistics at CEVA, ANZ.
“Together with two other upcoming ones in Erskine Park, we are building a sustainable logistics cluster in Western Sydney, to better serve the region.”
Mirvac and its Mirvac Industrial Venture partner, Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will also deliver Winning Group’s largest ever distribution centre at Aspect.
Currently under construction, the distribution centre is targeting a 6 Star Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of Australia for the 66,610sqm facility across an 11.5-hectare site.
The estate sits within close proximity to the new Western Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek, is less than 10 mins from the M7 motorway, 20km to Penrith and under an hour away from Parramatta and the Sydney CBD.
“Aspect provides access to approximately 4.3 million people within a 60-minute drive, enabling us to cater to growing e-commerce demand together with wide scale supply chain investment as our customers seek to establish more efficient logistics solutions for their businesses, to benefit consumers,” added Seddon.
“It’s critical that all levels of Government continue to invest in enabling infrastructure to support the growth of Western Sydney – we need continued collaboration with industry to align infrastructure, planning and funding to set the new aerotropolis up to be a leading global precinct.”
