Council to buy up mystery Warrawong properties after closed-door debate

Kate McIlwain
Updated December 13 2017 - 7:01pm, first published 7:00pm
Mystery purchase: This was the area identified by Wollongong City Council in 2013 as being suitable for a community centre and library. But the location - and cost - of properties being bought along King Street remains top secret.
Mystery purchase: This was the area identified by Wollongong City Council in 2013 as being suitable for a community centre and library. But the location - and cost - of properties being bought along King Street remains top secret.

A new library and community centre in Wollongong’s southern suburbs could be a step closer, after councillors agreed to buy up properties on King Street, Warrawong to build it.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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