NSW Transport Department Spents $48.5 Million on Epping Office Asset Which it Will Demolish

THE New South Wales state transport department has paid $48.5 million for a prominent suburban office park in Sydney, which it will bulldoze, as part of its $8.5 billion North-West Rail Link project.

The office park was offloaded by Abacus Property Group which paid $25 million for the asset in 1997.

A lot of the asset’s value lay in its residential redevelopment potential. Instead the site will become the location for the North West Rail Link’s Epping Services facility. The purchase gives the government four buildings near the Epping railway station and bus interchange in the suburban north-west.

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