The SMH reported that “market criteria suggest disused
railway yards at Redfern owned by Transport NSW and a site at Sydney Olympic
Park, near the Armoury, are the likely front-runners for the new-generation
Sydney facilities to make new film and television content. The only existing
production facility in NSW is Disney Studios at Moore Park”.
It also revealed that “private consortium Distillery Capital
wants to build eight state-of-the-art sound studios, co-located editing suites
and rehearsal spaces, community green space and up to 500 affordable inner-city
dwellings on disused railway yards at Redfern. The consortium of local
filmmakers, architects and a construction giant have presented their informal
proposal for North Eveleigh to the government”.
The article says “University of Sydney vice chancellor Mark
Scott sees the Eveleigh plans as a way to finally realise a long-desired bridge
linking Australian Technology Park with Carriageworks and its surrounding Tech
Central precinct while providing much-needed student accommodation”.
The article reported that expressions of interest will open late March to deliver the Minns government’s promised $100 million investment in new sound stages and production facilities.
REDWatch, Friends of Erskineville and Alexandria Residents
Action Group are currently seeking information from Transport for NSW about its
earlier work on the feasibility of an Eveleigh bridge through a GIPA request.
The groups are planning to launch a broad-based campaign for the bridge in the
new year.
You can read the SMH article quoted above at: Bring us blockbusters: Frontrunners emerge for Sydney’s second film studio