The retail giant Amazon is walking away from plans for a new warehouse near the new Western Sydney Airport. The developers lobby says red tape and a lack of proper roads and sewerage at the site are jeopardising the future of the Western Sydney employment area.
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00:00 The Mamre Road precinct is meant to be home to thousands of jobs, but there's still a
00:07 lot of grass and dirt two years out from the opening of its major neighbour, the Western
00:12 Sydney Airport.
00:13 Unfortunately, we're going to have an airport that's surrounded by empty fields.
00:18 In 2020, retail giant Amazon announced a new distribution centre at Kemps Creek.
00:24 It was considering another one at Mamre Road, one of 12 precincts in the Aerotropolis spruced
00:30 by the former government.
00:32 Four years on, Amazon says it's looking at a different Western Sydney location.
00:37 Until you've got the roads and the water infrastructure in place, you're not going to get contracts
00:42 signed.
00:43 We're in discussions with Amazon.
00:44 They're looking at other options in Western Sydney.
00:49 Developers say local roads need upgrades to accommodate trucks, and they say too much
00:55 red tape has put off prospective tenants.
00:57 While we've effectively abolished the Western Sydney Parkland Authority, brought it all
01:01 in-house, have streamlined authority.
01:05 Another project announced by the former government, which is going ahead, is the Metro West.
01:09 This site will become the Bay's Metro stop, and 7,000 people a day will pass through here
01:15 to get to the CBD.
01:17 These concrete tunnel segments are being stockpiled at the Bays and will be taken through the
01:21 Metro tunnels, 90 metres underground, to meet the boring machines working on the next section,
01:28 from Five Dock to Burwood North.
01:31 Another step in a project still eight years away.
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