The site is the original home of Taubmans Paint, one of Australia's most recognisable creative manufacturers. Its warehouse buildings have been retained and adapted, with new residential and commercial structures woven between them, organised around an activated public ground plane and a network of laneways that reopen the site to the surrounding suburb.
Two kilometres from Newtown, three from Alexandria, and within easy reach of the universities, the airport and the rapidly evolving creative cluster of Sydney's Inner West.
Precinct 75 sits on the original site of Taubmans Paint — the birthplace of one of Australia's most recognisable creative manufacturers. The masterplan keeps that legacy in the bones of the place: warehouse buildings retained and adapted, new structures calibrated to their scale, and a network of laneways and plazas — including Makers Way, the precinct's primary public connection — woven between them.
COX Architecture has approached the site as two equal halves, residential and commercial-industrial, stitched together by an activated ground plane and shared public realm. The new buildings read as part of the site's working language rather than imposed on it: brick, exposed structure, generous proportions and full-height glazing carrying the warehouse logic into long-term residential and commercial use. Arcadia's landscape works to the same vocabulary — materials and planting calibrated to a precinct that's been operating for over a century.
Living at Precinct 75 means living in a working warehouse neighbourhood — but with a building, a service team and an amenity offer designed for long-term residential life.
Apartments range from studios through to three-bedrooms, operated by Nation. Concierge from the moment you walk in. On-site management every day of the week. A team that knows the building because they're part of it. Pets welcome. Hang what you like. Stay as long as suits you. Furnished apartments are fitted with custom-designed pieces, made for the building. Unfurnished is yours to fill.
Amenity is programmed across the precinct rather than concentrated in one place. A rooftop terrace with plunge pools, looking across the Inner West. A communal lounge with slow afternoons in mind. A shared dining room for the dinners you'd rather host than book. Dedicated study and working spaces for the days you don't want to commute. A rooftop sports court for the kids. Nation's full wellness suite — gym, sauna, cold plunge, recovery — included with your rent.
And the spaces no other Nation building has: dedicated art and maker studios on site, for the residents who actually make things. Not as an afterthought. As a return to what this site has always been for.
The ground plane of Precinct 75 has been designed as a public-facing creative neighbourhood — a network of laneways, plazas and a new public park, organised around the site's adaptive-reuse buildings and connected end-to-end by Makers Way, the precinct's primary pedestrian spine.
Public art is integrated through the masterplan, commissioned in collaboration with local creative practitioners and embedded into the laneways, walls and gathering spaces rather than treated as decorative add-ons. The result is a precinct that reads as a creative destination from the moment you walk in, not just a residential building with retail at its base.
Retail and commercial tenancies are woven through this public realm — running across food and beverage, services, wellness, design studios and workspace, curated to reinforce St Peters' creative identity rather than to compete with it.
Coronation Retail arm leads tenant curation and on-site management, focused on long-term operator partnerships and active placemaking.
