1995
In the early 1990s a joint venture between Mirvac and Westfield took on the redevelopment of the former tobacco factory site, and by 1995 the result was one of the most ambitious residential projects of its era in Sydney.
The new Raleigh Park Estate comprised roughly 400 apartments across seven high-rise strata buildings along the northern boundary, and around 100 houses arranged into nine neighbourhoods across the remaining grounds — all within 20 acres of manicured, garden-style landscaping with resort-style shared facilities.
Crucially, Raleigh Park was registered as the first community title estate in New South Wales, a then-new form of shared ownership that allowed the strata buildings, individual houses and the common grounds to be governed together under a single Community Association.
The development cemented Mirvac's reputation for large-scale, integrated residential projects.