Want the Dragons as neighbours? Only commercial space in new precinct hits market
Unique opportunity in the Bruce Gordon Centre complex.
You’ll have the Illawarra Dragons as neighbours, and be positioned at the centre of the region’s emerging high-performance precinct, if you are lucky enough to lease the only commercial unit available within the new Bruce Gordon Centre complex.
A single 258-square-metre commercial suite inside the new precinct has been listed for lease by Colliers.
The centre, being built off Innovation Way, will be the base of the St George Illawarra Dragons’ high-performance program.
Scheduled for completion in mid-2026, it will bring together the Dragons’ training, administration, and community operations under one roof.
The suite advertised is the only commercial space available at the Bruce Gordon Centre and is touted as suitable for health, rehabilitation, or performance-aligned businesses.
Simon Kersten, Managing Director of Colliers Wollongong, said they are looking for expressions of interest from an organisation that has a good fit with elite sport.
“It is the rugby league centre of excellence, and it’ll be the home of the Dragons. We are dreaming about an allied medical use, but it does not have to be that,” he said.
“It needs to be something related to the Dragons, sport or medical research. Something that could partner with the Dragons or elite sport in the region.”
The suite is being delivered empty, with core services already installed. Kersten said it was a blank canvas for a business that was keen to build a relationship with the Dragons.
Construction of the centre began in early 2025 and was backed by $53.6m in federal funding.
Once complete, it will feature two full-sized NRL playing fields, a high-performance gym, sport science areas, aquatic recovery facilities, education spaces, and office space for the Dragons’ football, community, and administration staff.
During a sod turning ceremony when construction started in March 2025, the then-CEO of the St George Illawarra Dragons, Ryan Webb, said: “The completion of a world-class facility such as this will help take our male and female athletes to new heights, while bringing our administrative and football programs altogether under one roof will be hugely beneficial for club cohesion and unity.”
Webb has since been succeeded by Tim Watsford, the former chief operating officer of Supercars.