Gary Kleyn

GOVERNMENT agencies and departments take up more than 430,000 square metres of floor space in the central business district – equivalent to around eleven BankWest towers.

THE Department of Local Government has prepared an analysis of the problems facing local governments when calling tenders for goods and services.

MORE than three quarters of small business and family business owners feel unwell and in bad health due to work-related stress, according to a recent study by Edith Cowan University’s Faculty of Business and Public Management.

THE interest shown by developers in the Exmouth Marina Village has demonstrated an ever-growing commitment to investing in regional WA, according to CB Richard Ellis’ David Kennedy.

ONLY two of WA’s plethora of rural tax investment schemes have good prospects according to a scathing report by Van Eyk Capital.

AUSTRALIA’S first Internet portal dedicated to the processing of business to government transactions will lead to the creation of a new e-commerce sector.

ONE company taking advantage of the current political climate in relation to removing old growth forests is Australian Plantation Timber.

PARAMOUNT Night Club and Varga Lounge in James Street have obtained Council approval to prohibit parking outside the nightclubs after 5:30pm for a three month trial basis.

PERTH based Dome Coffee Group has secured GS Private Equity as a new equity partner to help fund a major eastern seaboard expansion program.

Real estate industry-owned web site, www.propertypage.com, has almost doubled its listings in the past six months to 110,000 active listings.

THE recent quarter of a percent increase in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia was an over reaction according to the Real Estate Institute of WA.

CELEBRATIONS are ongoing in Bunbury over a national award granted by the Urban Development Institute of Australia for the Marlston Hill urban renewal project.

AUSTRADE is trying to shift WA business focus from Asia to the world’s second fastest growing region – Latin America.

MANY CEOs are so caught up in running the day to day affairs of a business that they do not allow time to step back and assess longer term goals and strategies.

WESFARMERS has sold a major distribution warehouse in Bassendean to a local investment syndicate for $5.7 million.

THE Perth property market’s growing appetite for inner city residential developments continues unabated with a spate of new projects planned or underway in West Perth, East Perth, South Perth and the CBD says Colliers Jardine research manger David Cresp.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Cheryl Edwardes has described the Shire of Dardanup as a leader among the South West Shires in terms of environmental management.

CLOUGH Limited patriarch Harold Clough was named one of Australia’s export heroes by the Australian Institute of Export at a recent gala dinner in Sydney recently.

MATERIALS from the twentieth and twenty-first century have been brought together in the new Central TAFE building in Northbridge.

INNER City living should be restricted to the areas recommended by the Inner City Housing Taskforce in 1992, says Time Conti Sheffield managing director Paul Conti.

CREATING a niche for themselves in the South West is WA’s oldest and largest patent and trade mark attorney, Wray and Associates.

WHILE Australian gas reform to date has focussed on the mid and downstream sectors of the industry, gas supply is still not seen as particularly competitive.

ISSUES affecting Australia’s land development agencies were the subject of a recent talkfest hosted by WA’s LandCorp.

ALTHOUGH inner city living has gained in popularity in the past five years, the stage was set in the late 1980s, says Time Conti Sheffield managing director Paul Conti.

THE WA land development industry is alive and well thanks to a competitive market driven by innovative land owners says Urban Development Institute of Australia WA president Graham McArthur.

LANDCORP, the government’s land development agency, made a after tax profit of $13.1 million for the first six months of the current financial year – almost double its target of $6.6 million.

ALMOST 23 per cent of female and 16.4 per cent of male employees believe the Internet has affected their productivity adversely, according to a recent survey by recruitment firm Alectus Personnel.

THE WA Government’s commitment to the creation of greater business opportunities in regional WA will be a major focus for the new head of the State Supply Commission.

INNER city living looks set to continue because of the changing lifestyle of many families says Colliers Jardine residential associate director John Lagdon.

PRIVATE dwelling approvals in WA fell 15 per cent in February after a 7.3 per cent seasonally adjusted rise in the previous month, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.

FIBERTEL/Amcom has extended its high-speed fibre optic network to Technology Park in Bentley.

TOURISM brings revenue of $343 million a year to the South West.