Aldi Greenlit for Billion-Dollar Aerotropolis Distribution Centre
Aldi’s massive automated distribution centre in Western Sydney’s Aeotropolis has been approved.
It is the first state significant approval in the Ingham Property Group masterplan area and the logistics hub will be the size of 15 soccer fields.
The 87,000sq m facility will be the blue-chip anchor of the 182ha estate and it is the biggest distribution centre greenlit in the Aerotropolis to date.
European retail giant Aldi will occupy 22ha of the estate’s first stage.
Once built, it will operate 24 hours, seven days a week with about 80 per cent of operations automated.
Aldi has included rooftop solar panels in its energy efficient design to help the facility reach a goal of net-zero operations by 2035.
It will create 3700 construction jobs and 585 permanent local jobs, and supply Aldi’s 200-store network across the state.
Submitting its proposals last year, Aldi said the project was “transformational” and the retailer intended to use the site as a base to expand its retail network.
Ingham Property Group signed an agreement for lease deal for the 475 Badgerys Creek Road site in Bradfield in 2024.
The wider 182ha estate has been owned by the Ingham family since the 1960s.
It is adjacent to Bradfield, Australia’s first new city in 100 years, and close to other significant developments, including Advanced Manufacturing Research facilities and other major industrial estates including the Elizabeth Enterprise Precinct and Barings’ Luddenham Industrial Estate.
At a press conference today, Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Catherine King MP said she expected billions of investment from private companies to follow.
“And what the government can do, [both the] federal government and the state government, is put the critical infrastructure in place to make it easier for big firms to invest in our state,” she said.
In the wider area, a third of Bradfield is now reportedly development-ready.
The infrastructure works included 4km of new roads, 8km of active transport links and 178 on-street car parks.
Plenary was tapped as the first developer to start work on Bradfield, as part of a $1-billion deal to transform the first 5.7ha of prime land in the new city.
Western Sydney Airport itself is on track to open in late 2026.
