BWA | JUL 2026 61 ing, education, public spaces and community facilities on the former campus site. That pairing is instructive: the agency is helping deliver a major new city-centre anchor while also unlocking the next chapter for a strategic redevelopment site elsewhere. That is one of the reasons DevelopmentWA’s role feels more strategic than purely transactional. It is not just preparing parcels for sale or managing individual approvals; it is working across precinct creation, land recycling, public-space activation and longer-term urban restructuring. The same logic can be seen in legacy city-shaping work such as Elizabeth Quay, which the agency still presents as part of a broader set of CBD and riverfront reconnection projects. Viewed together, these projects show an organisation trying to shape how Western Australian cities function, not merely how specific lots are used. There is also a governance and lifecycle dimension to the model. DevelopmentWA’s planning-and-approvals overview says some redevelopment project areas have
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