Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

PUBLIC HOSPITALITY GROUP PICKS UP CAMPERDOWN’S LADY

Posted on March 21st, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Jon Adgemis’ Public Hospitality Group has taken the hand of the Lady Hampshire of Camperdown, for around $11 million. The Lady is a well-known landmark of the inner west, passed by thousands of cars each day on bustling Parramatta Road.

BLACK RHINO CONQUERS COPPER TOWN

Posted on March 21st, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Melbourne-based Black Rhino Group has taken another run at South Australian potential, buying all three pubs in the Copper Coast town of Moonta. Found around 160 kilometres north-west of Adelaide, Moonta is a community of over 4,000 people and one

WALKER LISTS TOP200 EARLWOOD

Posted on March 18th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Kent Walker has put suburban stalwart the Earlwood Hotel to market, in a rare divestment of a Top200 Sydney pub. Built 1931, the three-storey brick Hotel was designed in the Interwar style, occupying an 825sqm lot with overall floorspace of

MERIVALE TAKES ANOTHER IN NAROOMA

Posted on March 18th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Justin Hemmes has furthered his push south, buying one of Narooma’s oldest and most historic buildings, Lynch’s Hotel. Located on a 2,300sqm site in Narooma’s town centre, the Hotel features a classic bar, a casual restaurant with indoor and outdoor

FIRST-TIME LOCALS TAKE ON WAYWARD CAPTAINS FLAT

Posted on March 18th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

The stoic and enigmatic Captains Flat Hotel of Captains Flat has sold to first-timers, local family the Durrs. The very large-format pub was built c.1937, occupying a 2,024sqm block and the only Hotel in Captains Flat – an historic township

CITY-FRINGE ROYAL ALBERT FGC ON OFFER

Posted on March 15th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

As city-fringe pubs continue to regain momentum, craft beer mecca the Royal Albert Hotel of Surry Hills is being offered as a re-stapled freehold going concern. The long-term freehold owners have collaborated with the leaseholder and are offering both the

PADDINGTON ROYAL LATEST TOLD TO KEEP IT DOWN

Posted on March 15th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

Mitchell Waugh’s Royal Hotel at Paddington is being forced to beef up noise reduction, after shutdown-spoiled local residents complained about the pub’s patrons. Resident complaints spoke of patron noise inside the venue and early-morning noise from trucks and rubbish collection.

MAN BRINGS MACHETE TO PUB BRAWL

Posted on March 15th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

A violent altercation involving weapons and sending six people to hospital took place in a pub in the Adelaide CBD over the weekend, with police now investigating links to gang violence. Around 1am on Sunday morning emergency services were called to

PUB INVEST TO DIVEST CROWN AND NORTH NOWRA

Posted on March 11th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

The second half of Damien Kelly’s troubled Pub Invest portfolio has been put to market, being the landmark Crown Hotel of Surry Hills and Nowra’s large-format North Nowra Tavern. News broke at the start of the year that insolvency and

MATHIESON BUILDS WITH HAKFOORT’S REDBRICK

Posted on March 11th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

The long-standing Hakfoort Group has sold its iconic Redbrick Hotel in Woolloongabba to pub royalty the Mathieson family. The heritage-listed Victorian-era Hotel was built in 1890 for Thomas Burke, who remained owner and proprietor until 1899. Several owners followed before