A $100m Woolworths automated customer fulfilment centre (CFC) has been approved for 11-13 Percy Street while an $80m hotel will be built at 93 St Hilliers Road, with work expected to start on both later this year.
Woolworths will partner with Knapp on the first automated online CFC in Western Sydney to improve the customer experience in home delivery and help personal shoppers pick and dispatch up to 50,000 home deliveries a week.
WooliesX Managing Director Amanda Bardwell said there had been an extraordinary acceleration in online grocery shopping over the past year – helped along by Covid-19 restrictions – and they expected more customers would turn to the “ease and convenience of home delivery to reclaim time in their busy lives”.
“To keep pace with the demand, we need to innovate with new technology to boost capacity and ensure we’re continuing to offer the best possible online grocery experience,” she said.
The 22,000sqm Auburn CFC will provide up to 250 jobs and 440 jobs during construction.
Two years after the Marriott hotel was first mooted, it has been approved.
Operated under the Courtyard by Marriott brand and expected to be completed in 2023, the eight-storey hotel will include 202 rooms, gym, indoor pool, restaurant, café/bar, function/conference area and meeting rooms.
A spokesperson for developer T1 Construction, says Courtyard by Marriott is committed to integrating natural elements in hotel design, creating natural artistic conception, strengthening the integration of the environment and interior space, and fulfilling people’s desire to be near nature.
Cumberland Mayor Steve Christou said “developments of this scale shows that big businesses see Auburn as an emerging suburb with great potential”.
