Macquarie Park, New South Wales

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Macquarie Park is a suburb in the north of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately 17 km north-west from the Sydney CBD in the City of Ryde. Surrounding suburbs include Marsfield, North Ryde, West Pymble, West Lindfield and Chatswood West.

Despite the fact that Macquarie Park is now officially a separate suburb from North Ryde, many still consider it a part of North Ryde and many places inside its boundaries, especially businesses, use North Ryde addresses. This has not really been considered a problem since the two suburbs share a postcode anyway. The use of North Ryde addresses is probably due to the fact that North Ryde is a more widely recognised suburb.

Major attractions to the area are the corporate prestige factor, aesthetically pleasing environment, close access to facilities such as the Macquarie Shopping Centre, Macquarie University, M2 Hills Motorway and soon to be opened Macquarie Park railway station.

1 History
2 Commerce and Business
3 Transportation
4 External links

[edit] History

The "Macquarie Park Employment Area" was originally part of North Ryde until the early 1960s rezoning of 'Green Belt' land to allow for industrial activities. The initial concept for Macquarie Park was based on the idea of a similar industrial area surrounding Stanford University in San Francisco, California. The goal being to provided for the interaction between industries and the University. As such, during the same period, development of the Macquarie University began on adjacent land.

During the 1970s companies such as Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Limited, Beiersdorf, Racal and Universal Press located their corporate headquarters in the area. Macquarie Park has since gained a reputation of being a leading high-tech industrial area in Australia. It attracts many local and international companies from high-tech fields including electronic, scientific, computing, medical, communication and pharmaceutical.

[edit] Commerce and Business

Macquarie Park is a major centre for business in Australia and the state of New South Wales. It had a total number of 32 308 jobs in 2001, making it the fourth largest concentration of jobs in NSW after Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Parramatta. Large businesses in the suburb include:

AC Neilsen
Avaya
AstraZeneca
BOC
Canon
Cisco Systems
Compuware
CSC
Fujitsu
Fuji Xerox
Ford Motor Co/Premiere Automotive Group (Aston Martin, Jaguar, Volvo, Land Rover)
Foxtel
General Motors (Holden & Saab)
Global Television Studios, Sydney
Hitachi
Johnson & Johnson
Kenwood
Kimberly-Clark
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Nortel Networks
Novartis
Optus (Site and buildings under construction, expected to be used from second half of 2007)
Oracle Corporation
Orix
Philips
Raytheon
Siemens
Sony
Toshiba
Warner Music Group

Businesses that have previously operated in Macquarie Park:

Network Ten (until 1996)

[edit] Transportation

Macquarie Park is serviced by Shorelink, Busways Blacktown, Forest Coaches, Sydney Buses and Westbus bus services, and is adjacent to the M2 Hills Motorway. With the completion of Epping to Chatswood rail link in 2008 it will also have two railway stations.

[edit] External links

Coordinates: -33.77720° 151.12412°

Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Street Directory, MSN Maps and Multimap.
- Satellite image from Google Maps, WikiMapia and Terraserver.

Suburbs of the City of Ryde \| Lower North Shore \| Sydney
Denistone \| Denistone East \| Denistone West \| East Ryde \| Eastwood \| Gladesville \| Macquarie Park \| Marsfield \| Meadowbank \| Melrose Park \| North Ryde \| Putney \| Ryde \| Tennyson Point \| West Ryde
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