Fabcot Files Plans for Macquarie Park Warehouse

Woolworths’ property arm, Fabcot, has filed plans with the City of Ryde Council for a warehouse project at Macquarie Park, eight years after it acquired the site.

The distribution and customer fulfilment centre is proposed for a 1.4ha section of the 5.9ha site at 144 Wicks Road in the suburb 17km north-west of Sydney’s centre.

With a cost of more than $30 million, the proposal has been designated a State Significant Development. It is on exhibition.

The Nettleton Tribe Architects-designed building would have 32,402sq m of gross floor area and associated infrastructure. 

The proposal includes demolition and earthworks to make way for 28,762sq m of warehouse space and 1345sq m of ancillary office space.

Epping and Waterloo roads border the site that is 350m from the Macquarie Park Metro station—the northern section of the site is atop the Metro rail tunnel.

▲ A rendering of the Nettleton Tribe Architects-designed distribution centre proposed for Macquarie Park.

Fabcot acquired the 5.9ha site from Hydrox Nominees in August of 2017 for $33.5 million, according to CoreLogic property records. 

The warehouse would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week under the proposal. A scoping report for the project estimates a cost of $132.6 million.