Industry and government representatives convened today (5 March 2020) at Toyota in Fishermans Bend to hear Bernadine Voss, Mayor of the City of Port Phillip, Michael Caltabiano, CEO of ARRB, Rowan Maclean, Executive Director Fishermans Bend Precinct for the University...

The President of FBBF, Richard Blackman invited representatives of the Fishermans Bend Taskforce from the Department of Jobs Precincts and Regions to inspect some of Port Melbourne's most innovative businesses.

 Taskforce planners and project officers received a briefi...

 Picture (L-R) Richard Blackman (President), John Biondo, Peter Smith, David Weston (Exec. Officer) Alysia Reilly (Secretary) John Phillips (Treasurer) Andy Bowen, Murray Nicol (Deputy President) Not in photo Eric Nigol

Members attended AGM at the offices of OptiComm on...

FBBF members attending the November Business in the Bend function at Starward Distillery were given a presentation on the concept of establishing Fishermans Bend as a test-bed for innovations in mobility.  The project being advanced by the Australian Road Research Boar...

Fishermans Bend Business Forum jointly hosted international expert on the future of mobility Marco Marechal at the National Transport Research Centre in Fishermans Bend last Friday. Here FBBF Deputy President Murray Nicol (right) with Samantha Taylor (National Partners...

The Port Phillip Council recently supported an amended proposal for a 20 story apartment development at 118 Bertie St in the Sandridge Precinct.  The location between Fennell Street and the Freeway, if given the go ahead by the Minister for Planning, will be the first...

FBBF President Richard Blackman hosted government representatives and local businesses at the first Business in the Bend networking event on 11 September at Starward Distillery in Bertie Street.  Guests included Meredith Sussex AM the Chair of the Fishermans Developmen...

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The master plan for the GMH site that the government purchased for $130m in 2016 should include makerspaces. China has thousands of them.

The model developed by the Chinese government to create zhongchuang kongjian or “makerspaces for the people,” is worthy of considera...

FBBF has been approached by the organisers of a delegation from the Netherlands who will attend the Australian Smart Cities conference in Sydney in the last week of October 2019. Included in the delegation with be Altran the developer of the 2getthere autonomous shuttl...