This week's sod turn on the Black Rock Motor Resort at Wakefield marked the latest step in a landmark development set to attract hundreds of jobs and tens of millions of dollars' worth of annual tourism to the region.
Not long ago, we'd have said this was a once-in-a-generation adaptive reuse project: the transformation of a vast former open-cut and underground coal mine into a luxury resort, racetrack and other facilities for motorsport enthusiasts.
