Bradfield is due to become the third CBD in Greater Sydney, after the Sydney CBD and Parramatta.

Bradfield’s first building will be home to a collaborative centre run by Japanese multinational Hitachi and the first stage of a new advanced manufacturing and research facility.

Tony Shepherd AO, who chairs the government’s Modern Manufacturing Taskforce, says Bradfield will play a nationally significant role in reorienting Australia’s ability to make things that are relevant in the 21st and indeed 22nd centuries.

The Taskforce's report identifies several advanced manufacturing and technology hubs which could act as inspirations for the future city – including Israel, the UK city of Sheffield, Canada’s Ontario and the German region of Bavaria.

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