The ACT Government will re-locate public servants to a new office block in Gungahlin providing a boost for local jobs in Canberra’s fastest growing region. 

The 7,000sqm office complex is expected to house 500 public servants and include on-site parking. 

"This is a very significant milestone in the development of Gungahlin." GCC Vice President Peter Elford said today.  

"What was a collection of developing dormitory suburbs, is very rapidly becoming a genuine community! The early ground work and ongoing activism undertaken by the GCC is being rewarded, and I would like to extend my thanks to the early GCC members that pushed and advocated for the changes that have made this project possible. I would encourage others (like me!) to get involved with the GCC to maintain the momentum."

The coming ACT Budget will invest $150,000 for a study into the estimated cost and design of the building as well as the preferred site and tenants. It is expected to be one of the buildings to be built behind the emergency services building of Gozzard Street. 

Expressions of Interest for the building’s construction are expected to be called later this year.

It has been a long campaign to get to this stage, but at last some progress!