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Home and away: Seven's new face

CHANNEL Seven will move its television production centre to Redfern in 2009, in a $120 million development that will triple the workforce at Australian Technology Park and boost Redfern's urban renewal reports Sherrill Nixon SMH's Urban Affairs Editor.

The premises, used to produce programs such as Home and Away and Seven's publishing arm, Pacific Magazines, will take up more than one-third of the 11-storey office tower.

The building will be owned by Sydney Broadcast Property - a joint venture between the Seven Network and Rebel Property Group - which will seek other tenants to turn the site into a campus-style media hub.

The Premier, Morris Iemma, and the Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, said 600 people - including 60 indigenous people - would work on the development during construction, to begin later this year, and 2000 people would be employed in the building once completed.

The centre will be the first commercial building developed by the private sector at Australian Technology Park, which is one of the sites under the planning control of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority.

The Seven Network will retain its studio and news centre at Martin Place and its new corporate centre at Darling Harbour when it moves its production centre from Epping to Redfern in 2009.

Sydney Broadcast Property, which also owns the Epping site, has applied to Mr Sartor for planning approval to build about 650 units on the site once the production centre is closed.

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