Our city, your business, the perfect balance

Why Wollongong?
◾ 70% A-grade office stock pipeline
◾ Large, skilled, professional talent pool
◾ Lower staff turnover vs national average
◾ Strategic location to Sydney, airports

Wollongong Office Market Prospectus

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An ideal location for professional services

Wollongong’s professional services sector continues to thrive with a number of national and global companies already based in our city. These include locally grown businesses, such as Peoplecare and IMB, and large corporate brands, including NEC and Mercer.

Choose Wollongong and you can:

1. Find the right talent

Gain access to both high calibre graduates from the University of Wollongong and our commuting pool of 23,000 highly skilled workers.

2. Reduce operating costs

With savings of up to 33%, Wollongong can be a cost effective alternative to a capital city CBD location, including Sydney, Parramatta and Melbourne.

3. Be supported

Wollongong has a thriving, supportive business community that includes active networks across private and government sectors.

4. Join leading brands

NEC, Mercer, and Peoplecare are some of the established businesses already based in Wollongong, with a number of growing tech companies including Accelo and Easy Agile.

5. Enjoy A-grade offices

Wollongong’s commercial market is expanding thanks to a 36 per cent uplift in premium office space and another 25,000+sqm in the development pipeline.

6. Stay connected to Sydney

Well linked by road, train and air, Wollongong is strategically located to both Sydney and Melbourne, meaning you’re never far from client or stakeholder meetings.

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The best of business and lifestyle

The benefits of Wollongong don’t end with business: Our city is an amazing place to live, with those who have made the move discovering a beautiful city supporting real work-life balance.

The city’s natural environment is stunning and includes coast, lake, forest and mountain. Wollongong has a temperate climate that means the outdoors can be enjoyed all year round.

It’s an active city, with many outdoor parks and fields, great sports infrastructure and a well connected cycling network (Wollongong was recently announced as the first official Bike City in the Southern Hemisphere by the UCI.

The arts and culture scene is well-established, with Merrigong Theatre Company, the Wollongong Art Gallery and Wollongong’s public libraries supporting an emerging creative scene across the city and suburbs.

Learn more about Wollongong’s superb lifestyle: Vibrant Coastal City.

New commercial space available

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wollongong CBD had seen an unprecedented level of investment and construction, including $1.6 billion of investment in recent years. With an additional 28,000 sqm of A-grade office space under construction or newly completed, there’s a number of brand-new properties ready to accommodate your businesses in Wollongong.

Lang’s Corner

A landmark A-grade office development offering premium space at the lower end of Crown Street Mall (12,732 sqm GFA)

Gateway on Keira

A newly completed A-grade office development on Keira Street (5,200 sqm GFA)

Avante

A new mixed-use development offering A-grade office space overlooking the Wollongong CBD (5,500 sqm GFA)

Wollongong Office Market Prospectus

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Case study: Cardno in Wollongong

Senior Principal, David Laing, provides some of the opportunities a Wollongong office has provided Cardno, and shares his own perspective of working and living in Wollongong.

Are you ready to take the next step?

If you think Wollongong might be the right location for your business, the team at Invest Wollongong is here to support you. Here are some of the ways we can help:

Connect you with key decision-makers and potential business or supply partners.
Provide you with information and statistics for your business case to move to Wollongong.
Organise personalised tours to key areas of interest.

Let’s start a conversation

Our team is ready to answer your questions and gather the information you need to build the case for Wollongong.