IMB Bank's new $22m head office plan may require archaeological dig

Kate McIlwain
Updated December 7 2017 - 1:34pm, first published 1:33pm
Links to the city's past: The site of IMB Bank's new headquarters may require an archaeological assessment after historians found it could have remnants of old Wollongong buried underground.
Links to the city's past: The site of IMB Bank's new headquarters may require an archaeological assessment after historians found it could have remnants of old Wollongong buried underground.

The IMB Bank may need to conduct an archaeological dig before building its proposed new $22 million headquarters, documents lodged with Wollongong City Council reveal.

Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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