Media Releases

Newcastle Now is excited to announce that it has been successful in securing $500,000 in grant funding from the Newcastle Port Community Contribution Fund, administered by Hunter Development Corporation. This funding will be directed toward a $1.5million development of the site to position it as an iconic tourist destination on par with Newcastle Memorial Walk and Fort Scratchley. “The grant is an acknowledgment, by Gover...

Newcastle Now will launch its revitalised City Ambassador Program on the evening of Tuesday 13th December at the Tower Cinemas, with 56 volunteers from a wide variety of vocations, ages and cultures now registered with the Association. “A recent recruitment drive captured the interest of people from all walks of life, each of whom share a common interest in being part of the ongoing revitalisation of Newcastle,” says Mich...

Newcastle Now Business Improvement Association has produced a guide to parking in Newcastle city centre as a tool to begin educating workers, shoppers and visitors about where to park, the fare-free bus zone and the future of parking in Newcastle. Executive Manager, Michael Neilson, says “Our main objective for the map is to educate workers about the benefits of parking their car at a parking station so that on-street car...

Newcastle landscape design firm Mark Tisdell Urban Design (MUD) recently took home two acclaimed awards at the Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers Awards night for the Darby Street Community Garden Project. MUD managed the project from conception to design, execution and handover to the Newcastle community. Mark Tisdell, founder and principal designer from MUD was at the AILDM awards night ceremony he...

The partners of a unique collaboration between major education, research, business, government and community organisations in Newcastle have welcomed a funding announcement that heralds a great leap forward for the Hunter Region in the digital age.  Today's $9.8 million commitment from the NSW Government through the Hunter Infrastructure and Investment Fund (HIIF) will support the Hunter Innovation Projec...

Presented by the Port of Newcastle the 2016 Winter Heat Festival is set to be bigger, bolder and brighter than ever with six festival zones stretching along Honeysuckle Promenade. Festival infrastructure will extend from Worth Place in the west to the Crown Plaza Hotel in the east. This year’s theme is Heat meets Harbour and for the first time in the festival’s ten year history, the harbour itself is being treated as a fe...