WABi Pursuit · Right Outside the Brief 15 June 2026
Same corridor. Different door.
Five fresh pathways inside the Western Trade Coast, plus one quiet flip. Each one is a small step from where the principal already wants to be.
The scope held tight. Everything below sits inside the Fremantle to Kwinana coastal corridor. No regional WA. No southern or eastern stretch. The principal does not have to leave the country he chose.
The stretch is sideways, not outward. The fresh angle is who owns the land and what shape the deal takes. The map is the same map he already knows.
Five fresh doors · all inside the corridor
Each one bypasses the legacy-family problem entirely.
01
Latitude 32 · Hope Valley / Wattleup
State-owned industrial precinct, purpose-built for incoming tenants. Government landlord, no family negotiation.
Owner
DevelopmentWA. Sits inside the Western Trade Coast, between Kwinana and the Henderson / Naval Base footprint the principal already favours.
The ask
"What land is unreleased or undermarketed across Latitude 32 in the 15 to 20k sqm band, and would WABi be considered as an anchor tenant?"
Pathway
DevelopmentWA · Strategic Industrial Lands team. Nicole has direct peer standing through Infrastructure WA. One call to the relevant Director.
02
Australian Marine Complex · Henderson
DevelopmentWA-managed precinct, literally in the corridor. AUKUS-driven expansion creating land movement now.
Owner
DevelopmentWA with Federal Defence overlay. Active expansion underway through the AUKUS submarine programme.
The ask
"With the AMC expansion footprint shifting, is there land within or adjacent to the precinct that could host a complementary industrial tenant?"
Pathway
DevelopmentWA · AMC precinct lead. Sits inside the same team as Latitude 32. One conversation can cover both.
03
Fremantle Ports · Inner Harbour land
Westport's long transition is freeing inner-harbour land for new tenants. A leaseable footprint already exists.
Owner
Fremantle Ports Authority. Long-term leasing model. Decisions in months, not generations.
The ask
"What harbour-adjacent leasable land sits between North Quay and Rous Head that could suit a 15 to 20k sqm industrial tenant?"
Pathway
Fremantle Ports · Property & Commercial team. Nicole's Westport history is the credential. The conversation lands because it lines up with the port's own narrative.
04
Kwinana Industries Council · co-location into the cluster
Australia's longest-running industrial symbiosis precinct. WABi becomes a member, not a buyer.
Owner
Member companies hold the land (BP, Wesfarmers Chemicals & Fertilisers / CSBP, Tianqi, Alcoa). KIC orchestrates partner-tenant matching.
The ask
"Which KIC member has under-used land in their footprint that would suit a complementary industrial tenant, and where could WABi's inputs or outputs slot into the cluster's symbiosis program?"
Pathway
Kwinana Industries Council · Executive Director. One coffee. The KIC EDs see the whole cluster's land position.
05
City of Kwinana & City of Cockburn · council-held industrial sleeves
Councils hold industrial land they rarely advertise. Direct conversations surface what searches cannot.
Owner
Local Government, with active Economic Development mandates around jobs, rate base, and decarbonisation outcomes.
The ask
"What council-owned or council-influenced industrial land in the Western Trade Coast could host an anchor tenant whose presence would unlock jobs and decarbonisation outcomes for the LGA?"
Pathway
Economic Development teams at both Cities. The CEOs and Mayors care about anchor tenants. Nicole's policy weight reads cleanly.
The quiet flip
Stop hunting. Be findable.
A scoped land-partner invitation
A one-page WABi Land Partner Invitation, issued by Nicole under Lockwood Advisory letterhead, geographically scoped tight to the Western Trade Coast. Names the footprint requirements. Invites landowners, port authorities, councils, KIC members, and DevelopmentWA to respond within 30 days.
Issued to a curated list of under twenty recipients, not the open market. The principal sees this as a private, dignified outreach. The inbox tells Nicole within a month who is genuinely live, which corridors are real, and which conversations are worth opening.
Same corridor. Same brief. A different direction of travel.
Three moves this week
Surgical. None of them touches a family business.
01
One call to DevelopmentWA Strategic Industrial Lands. Covers Latitude 32 and AMC Henderson in a single conversation. Fastest reveal of fresh stock.
02
One coffee with the Kwinana Industries Council Executive Director. Frames WABi as a cluster fit, not a land seeker. Surfaces co-location possibilities across the KIC membership in one sitting.
03
Draft the Land Partner Invitation. Even unissued, drafting it crystallises the brief and gives Nicole a written instrument she can quietly circulate when the right moment comes.
The corridor never had to change. Only the door we knock on did.