Public memorial for ‘visionary’ billionaire

A nationalist memorial work volition beryllium held for the precocious Australian spot developer and billionaire Lang Walker astatine the Sydney Town Hall astatine 11am connected Friday.

Mr Walker died successful January astatine his location successful Sydney, and was laid to remainder astatine a backstage household ceremonial connected the Gold Coast.

His household person been overwhelmed by the enactment and good wishes from the assemblage and wanted to clasp a nationalist memorial work truthful radical had an accidental to observe Mr Walker’s beingness and achievements.

Mr Walker is an accomplished businessman who started the institution A & L Walker with his begetter Alec successful the 1970s.

The institution primitively specialised successful earthmoving, excavation and quarrying earlier moving into residential spot – rebranding to Walker Corporation successful 1973.

It aboriginal branched into the improvement of apartments, concern parks and commercialized centres, with immoderate 500 unit astir the world.

In 2015, Mr Walker was awarded an Order of Australia for his philanthropy and work to the community.

His generous quality extended to the Walker Family Foundation and its philanthropic partnerships successful assemblage projects specified arsenic the Powerhouse Museum and the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building.

After his death, Mr Walker’s household said their hearts were “broken” by the nonaccomplishment of a “great antheral who changed the lives of truthful galore radical done his visionary projects and philanthropy”.

“Lang loved creating unthinkable places wherever radical tin unrecorded and work, but helium loved his household much than thing other successful the satellite and his generosity and affection had nary boundaries,” they said.

“His zest for beingness and his relentless pursuit of perfection lives connected wrong everyone successful the Walker family.”

The spot tycoon’s wellness had deteriorated for immoderate clip earlier his decease and helium had stints successful and retired of hospital.

Walker Corporation managing manager and main enforcement David Gallant described Mr Lang arsenic a “visionary” and an “inspirational leader” who was the archetypal to “creatively tackle the situation of municipality transformation”.

“Lang’s imaginativeness volition stay an enduring unit done the Walker DNA and the Walker Way which helium actively passed connected – it is embedded successful our civilization and our modus operandi,” helium said.

Mr Walker’s wealthiness was past estimated successful The Australian’s Richest 250 database to beryllium worthy astir $6bn – which made him the nation’s 15th richest person.

His spot empire included much than 1000 projects crossed the nation, specified arsenic King St Wharf successful the Sydney CBD, the Collins Square translation successful Melbourne and Riverlea successful Adelaide.

The organisation aboriginal went planetary with developments successful Singapore and Malaysia.

In 2015, Mr Walker was awarded an Order of Australia for his philanthropic efforts and work to the community.

Mr Walker was a long-time protagonist of the St Vincent’s Curran Foundation and the foundation’s neuroscience probe astatine the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

He was besides the benefactor of the Lang and Sue Walker Centre for Hearing Research, the Garvan Institute, arsenic good arsenic a protagonist of St Vincent’s Prostate Cancer Centre and the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia.

Mr Walker is survived by his woman Sue and 3 big children Blake, Chad and Georgia. Mr Walker had 10 grandchildren.

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