A multimillion-dollar business estate at Dubbo continues to expand with more construction underway on site and a green light given for its next stages.
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The developers of BlueRidge Business Park have gained approval for a 20-lot subdivision that makes up its next three stages.
All lots in the first three stages had also been sold, Hunter Land development director Brad Ure said on Tuesday.
Dubbo food wholesaler Midwest Foods was relocating to a site under construction in the estate, and Mr Ure said it would be joining other "good quality businesses out there".
Hunter Land's website reveals the progress of the estate accessed from the Mitchell Highway on the city's east that was officially launched in 2009.
More than 20 lots were marked as sold by November 1 last year, a map on the website shows.
Mr Ure said Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation, the Skin Corrective Centre, Crowe Horwath, Big Blue Digital, Anytime Fitness, Doherty Smith and Associates and Carpet One were some of the businesses and organisations to open their doors at BlueRidge.
"It was slow to start with but it's going quite well now because of the style of business we've been able to attract," Mr Ure said.
"We see BlueRidge as a business park, rather than as an industrial estate."
The sizes of the lots ranged from "as small as 1500 square metres up to about 9000 square metres" as the developer sought to "stay flexible so we can respond to what our customers want".
There were options to purchase land or lease a premises at BlueRidge, and the company also offered a complete "design and construct service", the development director reported.
Affiliated company BlueRidge Projects, their building arm, mainly employed local trades and used local suppliers, which was important, Mr Ure said.
"We're predominantly doing design and construct because we offer it as a service, and our company has been doing it for so long - there are real economies of scale to using Hunter Land for the design side and BlueRidge Projects to undertake the construction," he said.
Mr Ure anticipated they were "not too far away" from starting civil works for stage four and that the three recently-approved stages would have a combined value of between $5 million and $6 million.
He said there weren't the same physical restraints at BlueRidge as there were in other parts of the city.
"There seems to be a little bit of a push for people to locate out of the CBD for businesses that don't need to be there," he said.
Midwest Foods managing director Damien Mahon said BlueRidge's location near to the highway, the quality of the development and surrounding businesses, the stability of the soil and good value for money were some of the reasons why they had chosen to make the move to the business park.
