Fyshwick 8.5ha industrial site offered, data centre use approved

The listing says the previous use was concrete batching and recycling.

The agent’s headline calls it “the last remaining block of scale in Canberra’s core industrial precinct”. That is the agent’s marketing claim, and we have not tested it.

Why it matters

The detail that stands out is the approved use list. The listing says an approved Crown lease variation development application allows bulk landscape supplies, data centre, freight transport, general industry, light industry, storage, transport and warehousing. That means a buyer is not starting from a rezoning: the uses are already approved, according to the agent.

That matters in a market where land is short. Region Canberra reported on 30 July 2025 that Frank Giorgi of RWC Canberra said the Territory was not releasing enough industrial land and that freight firms often prefer Fyshwick or the Majura Highway to save fuel. He added that Canberra has no large Woolworths or Coles stock warehouse, so goods are trucked in from Sydney along the Hume Highway.

Giorgi said the only places the Territory had released industrial land were Hume and Jerrabomberra, and that many freight operators do not want to be there because of the extra fuel cost. The same article noted he had recently brokered the $7.2 million sale of the Bunnings Trade Centre site in Mitchell. It also reported a tender for the Eastern Broadacre Strategic Assessment, which asked the successful consultant for a draft report by September 2026 and a final report by April 2027. Our own look at where that study stands is in the Eastern Broadacre story.

The numbers

• About 85,000 sqm of land, roughly 8.5 hectares.
• About 500 metres of frontage.
• Eight listed approved uses, including warehousing, freight transport and data centre.

What’s next

Watch for a sale announcement or a development application from a buyer. A data centre use would draw attention given the ACT debate already under way: see Conservation Council ACT’s call for a data centre pause and Senator Pocock’s levy proposal. The listing does not say that any buyer intends a data centre, and we are not suggesting one does.