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Watpac to develop $63m NSW Coroner's Court
Brisbane-based listed developer Watpac has extended its work in progress with the $63 million contract to build the new NSW Forensic Pathology and Coroner's Court facility for Health Infrastructure at Lidcombe in western Sydney.
The facility is a collaboration between NSW Health and NSW Department of Justice. It adds to the other government work by the group, which includes hospitals in Port Macquarie and Kempsey, the Translational Research Institute in Queensland and numerous aged-care facilities in Victoria.
Watpac has been awarded a $63 million contract to build the new NSW Forensic Pathology and Coroner's Court facility for Health Infrastructure at Lidcombe.
Watpac Construction NSW state manager John Koerner said the three-level building will include consultation suites, a mortuary and laboratories on the ground floor; conference rooms, court registry, administration rooms and offices on the first floor; and the Coroner's suites and courtrooms on the second floor.
Mr Koerner said work is expected to start in the coming month.
Nationally Watpac is delivering a number of major construction projects including Brisbane's $325 million Herston Quarter Redevelopment and $188 million Mary Lane project, Sydney's $129 million York & George mixed-use development, the $100 million Kodo development in Adelaide and a $61 million retirement community in South Melbourne.
The group was also recently announced as the managing contractor for Townsville's $250 million North Queensland Stadium.
Meanwhile, New Zealand-based Vital Healthcare Property Trust has undertaken a $30.3 million off-market acquisition of The Hills Clinic, a private mental health hospital in Sydney's north-western growth corridor.
The Hills is a two-level purpose-built mental health hospital, at Kellyville, will offer specialist inpatient programs. Healthe Care, Australia's third-largest corporate private hospital operator and pan-Asian healthcare services group will lease The Hills from Vital on a 30-year lease.
Vital Healthcare Management's chief executive David Carr said the Hills Clinic is Vital's fifth mental health hospital in Australia and its first in NSW and "directly supports our scale and diversification strategy".