Macquarie Park is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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14 Facts About Macquarie Park
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Macquarie Park is located 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Ryde.
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Macquarie Park was part of the suburb of North Ryde until it was gazetted as a suburb in its own right on 5 February 1999, and many businesses still use North Ryde as the address.
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Macquarie Park is named for Governor Lachlan Macquarie, a British military officer and colonial administrator who served as the Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821.
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The area that is Macquarie Park was part of the suburb of North Ryde from the late 19th century.
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The initial concept for Macquarie Park was based on the idea of a similar hi-tech industrial area surrounding Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, the goal being to provide for the interaction between industries and the university.
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Macquarie Park has since gained a reputation of being a leading high-tech industrial area in Australia.
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Macquarie Park is Northern Suburb's centre for major commercial and retail districts.
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Macquarie Park has a wide variety of restaurants and cafes and is known as a major dining destination in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney.
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Substantial re-development of the Macquarie University Station Precinct in Macquarie Park is planned and underway as part of the NSW State Government's "Priority Growth Precincts" program .
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Macquarie Park has access to the M2 Hills Motorway, that runs through the northern part of the suburb.
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Macquarie Park University has in recent years become a major research centre, with Macquarie Park University Hospital and the Cochlear Research Centre located within the university grounds.
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Macquarie Park is in the state of New South Wales electorates of Lane Cove and Ryde, and the federal electorate of Bennelong.
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Macquarie Park is the location for the Lane Cove River Tourist Park where the Australian soap opera Home and Away is partly filmed.
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