The coronavirus pandemic has put a shocking number of Australians out of work, but there's one sector anticipating a boom.
Western Sydney has welcomed a range of developments set to turn the region into a hub of packaging and warehouse delivery. Increasing numbers of people and businesses working from home has resulted in a surge in delivery orders.Sydney Business Park development director Owen Walsh said they had created 4500 jobs and hoped to push through to 23,500.
"It's a huge area – there's three kilometres by two kilometres, twice the size of the CBD," Mr Walsh said. Figures compiled exclusively for 9News by Australian Commercial Property showed the Blacktown local government area – including Marsden Park, Prospect, and Riverstone – was leading the rest of Sydney, with $640 million of development approvals last financial year.Thousands of jobs have been created.