A long-speculated deal to move part of Western Australia's Edith Cowan University into the Perth CBD has been finalised, with a new inner-city campus expected to open in 2025.
A long-speculated deal to move part of Western Australia's Edith Cowan University into the Perth CBD has been finalised, with an inner-city campus expected to open its doors in 2025.Its new campus in the Perth CBD will cater for 9,000 students and staffUnder the deal, ECU will vacate its Mount Lawley campus, relocating its law, business and technology divisions to the CBD, along with its hallmark arts school, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts .
The proposed new campus, which is slated to cost $695 million, is one of a spate of projects dubbed the "Perth City Deal". It comes as Murdoch University plans to develop a "vertical campus" in the CBD, along with an eSports hub, while Curtin University is set to expand its city footprint beyond its business and law school.ECU will spend $300 million on the new campus, with the Federal Government contributing $245 million.
The State Government will provide in-kind support by contributing land — valued at $150 million — for the new building.Planning Minister Rita Saffioti said the relocation of ECU's Mount Lawley campus to the CBD would "revitalise" the city centre."I think it'll completely transform the city and bring that activity, that vibrancy, that we've all wanted and I think other cities have been able to achieve through having university campuses.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
'We'll fight very hard': Public servants lead push to revive Sydney's CBDThe NSW government is pushing for public servants to lead a revival of Sydney's central business district, as the city attempts to ease the $10 billion blow dealt by the COVID-19 crisis | MeganGorrey AngusGthompson
Read more »
Laneways set to light city's path to reopening and recoveryForty laneways will be flooded with light, music and art installations to help revitalise the CBD this summer as part of a COVID-19 recovery plan to keep artists in work and lure people back to the city.
Read more »
Parents fuming over announcementQueensland school students will get an early start to their Christmas holidays as a reward for hardworking teachers in a move that has left parents fuming.
Read more »
Three-year-old boy wearing Spiderman pyjamas reported missing in Yallingup, in WA's south westThe boy was last seen at about 7:30am today in Yallingup, about a two-and-a-half hour drive south of Perth, sparking a search by police, with the State Emergency Service expected to join.
Read more »
Most homeless Lesbos asylum seekers head to new camp after fireSeventy per cent of the asylum seekers left homeless by a fire which destroyed the Lesbos refugee camp have now been relocated to a temporary site.
Read more »
Job losses across inner city could last yearsJobs across the central business districts of Sydney and Melbourne could be lost for up to a decade due to the coronavirus recession, slowing the nation's economic recovery | swrighteconomy
Read more »