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Renew Newcastle is designed to bring life back to the Newcastle CBD by allowing artists, artisans, craftspeople and community groups to undertake quality projects in otherwise empty buildings. It is a strategy designed to turn around decades of decay through high quality, low capital creative and place making projects.

Renew Newcastle relies on the support of property owners who have vacant buildings within the Newcastle CBD to make them available for this project. Property owners can define the terms they wish to make a building available on, select the project that takes place in them, and can participate on either a long term or short term basis.

Our legal advisors, Sparke Helmore have designed simple template license agreements to make it as easy as possible for property owners to participate. Property owners can make a property available to Renew Newcastle on either a fixed term basis (until a future redevelopment for example) or on a rolling basis (typically 30 days at a time) until you find a commercial tenant. In the interim, Renew Newcastle will undertake basic maintenance, remove graffiti, and ensure that the buildings is an asset rather than a liability to the quality of the streetscape surrounding it.

Renew Newcastle will hold comprehensive insurances, has a professional and diverse board overseeing the project, and will to work with you to ensure that the building is matched to a use that is appropriate and adds value to the building and its surrounds.

If you have a property or can assist with brokering access to a property, please contact us via email at property@renewnewcastle.org