Supporter Spotlight: Lot Fourteen
Sheridan Kiosk North Terrace.jpg - community café and bar at Lot Fourteen
We recently had a chat with Di Dixon, the State Project Lead at the innovation precinct, Lot Fourteen, Adelaide, Australia.
A precinct known all too well by the GRAVITY Australia team, Stone & Chalk, situated inside Lot Fourteen, is the home of the GRAVITY Challenge Headquarters. A place thriving with innovative people and ideas, Lot Fourteen is South Australia’s hub of space entrepreneurs.
What is Lot Fourteen?
Lot Fourteen is a competitive and future industry innovation precinct on the global stage, in the centre of one of the world’s safest and most liveable cities. We bring together entrepreneurs and innovators in space, defence, hi-tech and creative industries. The innovation precinct has already attracted big name tenants including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and the Australian Space Agency. And in the next 10 years, capital and operational expenditure in Lot Fourteen will generate $3.5 billion in economic activity for South Australia.
Why is Lot Fourteen involved with the Gravity Challenge?
We’re so excited to be partnering with GRAVITY Challenge. We believe, bringing together companies, entrepreneurs and universities to design and build solutions to real problems is key to helping progress the industry.
How is Lot Fourteen contributing to the space economy?
The space sector is one of the key focus areas at Lot Fourteen and we’re curating a collaborative ecosystem of like-minded companies with ambitious goals. For example, space-focussed companies, Myriota and Inovor Technologies, have collaborated this year on a $6.5 million space mission which will see the South Australian space industry send a locally manufactured small satellite into low Earth orbit. Also, on the precinct is the Australian Space Discovery Centre and Mission Control Centre which aims to inspire the next generation of the space workforce.
What’s the next big thing in the pipeline for Lot Fourteen?
Lot Fourteen is moving into a significant phase of transformation with delivery of major infrastructure development projects commencing by the end of 2021, including the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre and Innovation Hub and Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre. We’re excited that we have 1,300 people undertaking business, working, researching and studying at Lot Fourteen. This number will grow to a workforce of 6,000 researchers, entrepreneurs, innovators and students when the development is complete.