A former caryard on Bathurst Road has been sold while a deal on an adjacent Five Ways site is expected to be sealed this week.
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It is understood the new buyers are not looking to reinstate car yards and are planning two different uses.
Blowes Real Estate Director Gary Blowes said the former Audi dealership had been sold to a group of Sydney developers.
While Mr Blowes said he could not reveal what they had in mind for the site he said the developers owned "numerous hotels and motels in Sydney."
He said they doing "due diligence" on the site.
Mr Blowes said they would need to submit plans to Orange City Council.
He said the former Holden dealership on the opposite side of Endsleigh Avenue was likely to be sold to different developers, also from Sydney, this week.
Mr Blowes said they had plans for "light industrial, retail" use for the site.
It is understood they would seek to have two or three different uses on the site.
One part of the plans is understood to involve a chain store new to the Central West.
Mr Blowes said the plans would also need to be approved by council.
The sites have been empty all year following the car dealerships moving to a new site on the eastern fringe of the city late last year.
The former Audi dealership, covering 1762 square metres, and the old Holden dealership site on 5742 square metres were put on the market in late July.
At the time Mr Blowes said the sites were open to many different uses including as petrol stations, fast food outlets, retail stores or even child care centres.
The two sites were advertised for sale together with two occupied car dealerships in Bathurst and Dubbo under the titled "Invest in the Central West." It said they were all "prominent strategic highway sites."
Council is seeking to turn that area of Orange into a housing and accommodation precinct.
The planning proposal, known as the CBD Eastside Precinct Plan, is currently on public exhibition.
It proposes a mix of retail, business and office uses plus a range of housing styles.
That includes multi dwelling, residential flat buildings, attached dwellings, secondary dwellings and seniors housing.
The former Department of Primary Industries building, which has just become vacant, is in the heart of the precinct.
Council was told last week the owners had not yet found a new tenant.
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