IndustrialPatrick LauMon 22 Jun 26
Stockland’s $2.6bn Industrial Plan for Kogarah Golf Club Moves Ahead
A $2.6-billion concept plan for Stockland’s redevelopment of the Kogarah Golf Club into an industrial precinct has gone on exhibition.
The 32ha site at 13-19A Marsh Street, on the opposite bank of the Cooks River from Sydney Airport, would allocate about 18.3ha to development. The remainder would be dedicated to the Bayside Council for public space.
A proposal for $72 million of early works is also included covering site preparation and infrastructure to support the proposed logistics facilities as well as public open space.
Area for the public open space dedicated to the council, however, currently includes a construction compound for the stalled M6 Stage 1 project.
Built forms across five blocks would generate gross floor area of about 340,000sq m of freight and logistics spaces.
The 15-hole golf course previously on the site was vacated in March 2025, and sold to John Boyd Properties in a deal reportedly worth over $50 million. According to MinterEllison, which advised Stockland on the joint venture arrangement with that landowner, the final value of the project could reach $3.5 billion.
An upper bound for the estimated development cost reaches $2.8 billion, which the precinct would reach if it included land uses such as multiple data centres, office blocks and hotels alongside logistics facilities.
Under a planning proposal progressed by John Boyd in 2022 and finalised in 2025, alternative uses allowed could also include 20,000sq m of hotel or serviced apartment space, 20,000sq m of commercial space, and 10,000sq m of shops or food and drink premises.
John Boyd has also executed voluntary planning agreements with the council, and Transport for NSW, committing to road and infrastructure upgrades in the area.
The exhibition comes as multi-billion logistics developments have been piling up across Sydney. Industrial vacancies may have turned the corner in what was one of the world’s tightest markets, and a strategic planning overlay of NSW industrial lands is in the works.
Much of the action has centred on the Aerotropolis adjoining the Western Sydney International Airport, which is due to begin accepting cargo flights from July of next year.
However, other districts in the west have attracted their own projects. Earlier in June, ESR and Mitsubishi Estate Asia announced a $700-million partnership to develop a 18.3ha estate at Huntingwood.
