Clyde Mooney, Author at PubTIC

VIC REGULATORS BLOCK ALH EGM APPLICATION

Posted on January 24th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has upheld a ruling by VCGLR to deny ALH the 40 EGMs applied for at the Commercial Hotel, South Morang. Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) had requested the gaming machines for the Commercial, which

IRIS NEARS KINGS CROSS $47m DEVELOPMENT AS WOWSERS HUDDLE

Posted on January 22nd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Iris’ proposed $47m development in Kings Cross is under attack before it begins, with a local interest group fighting to scare Council into blocking the proposal. Kings Cross is back in the headlines, no longer for scandal or its infamous

PEET OFFERS UP FLAGSTONE ‘FUTURE’ PUB

Posted on January 22nd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Publicly-listed Peet is offering up a prime tavern site at the centre of its huge Flagstone master development. The greater Flagstone development is set to be one of Australia’s largest urban zoned greenfield projects, destined to become home to over

MERIVALE TO THROW MILLION-DOLLAR POST-XMAS STAFF PARTY

Posted on January 22nd, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

After a record year of acquisitions, bar king Justin Hemmes is throwing a record-breaking bash for around 3,000 employees, and closing the Merivale empire for a day to do it. Hemmes had a big 2017, the second half ushering around

STRADBROKE ISLAND HOTEL AND RETAIL ON OFFER

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

The idyllic Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel has come to market, as the dominant hospitality business on the Queensland tourist destination. The Hotel, known as Straddie Day Spa for its resort-style facilities, occupies a big 3,267sqm headland site at Point Lookout

FERMANIS’ RETREAT TO AUCTION

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Abbotsford’s storied Retreat Hotel will go under the hammer as a vacant freehold, to optimise the buyer pool for the development potential site. Built in 1915, the modest and aptly named Retreat is a local landmark, on the corner of

POOLE’S KEVINGTON HOTEL HEADS TO MARKET

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

One of Victoria’s most history-smacked pubs has come to market, offering riverside acres in a former goldrush town. Built in 1862 as Garrett's Beer House, the Kevington Hotel is the last surviving pub of many that sprang up following the

NARELLAN HOTEL PUTS UP NAZ MAN CHALLENGE

Posted on January 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Public House Group’s Narellan Hotel is gorging on the success of a good ol’ fashioned eating challenge, recently daring punters to take on the 3-kilogram bucket of ‘Grim Reaper’ chilli chicken wings. The promotion is dubbed the Naz Man Challenge,

PUBLICAN GROUP SINKS INTO RECEIVERSHIP DESPITE DIXON SWOOP

Posted on January 17th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

Despite divesting its entire portfolio late 2017, the beleaguered Publican Group has been put into voluntary liquidation. The cashed-up Dixon Hotel Group – since rebranded to Australian Venue Co (AVC) – bought the clutch of nine Publican Group venues in

PUBLICAN JAILED OVER PREMIER HOTEL FRAUD AND ARSON

Posted on January 17th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney

The failed owner of Albany’s historic Premier Hotel has pleaded guilty and received ten years over a scam to fake a robbery and arson in order to claim insurance. Mid-2016 news emerged that lessee Graeme Roderick Cooper – new operator