DESIGNING FOR EFFICIENCY, DIFFERENTIATION AND LONG-TERM

[caption id="attachment_7712" align="alignright" width="179"] Con Cayas[/caption] Con Cayas is a veteran of hospitality design, boasting over 20 years’ experience in the Queensland marketplace. He moved from director and partner at a mid-sized Brisbane practice and founded Cayas Architects back in

‘CLOEY’ HOTEL TO TEST WATERS IN TIME FOR SUMMER

The sky is the limit as Eastern Suburbs pub royalty comes to market, with Iris testing the waters for its beachside beauty, the Clovelly Hotel. Sam Arnaout’s Iris Capital acquired the Hotel in 2008 and in 2012 performed a major

KEYSTONE CONCLUSION CLOSER AS BREAK-UP IMMINENT

The much-anticipated future of The Keystone Group portfolio remains undetermined, as news emerges of a shrinking short-list and Dixon Hospitality eyeing seven of the 17 venues. After falling foul of financiers, a high-profile campaign for the well-known Keystone portfolio has

SOUTH-SYDNEY PUB OPENINGS TURN IT UP

Summer openings are in bloom, as seen in three hot new offerings in city-fringe Sydney pubs. Surry Hills rises topographically at the city’s southern border like a custodian, often making the most of the vantage in way of cutting-edge concepts

SOUTH-BRISBANE FGC COMES TO MARKET

The Moss St International Hotel just south of Brisbane has come to market as its interstate owner divests to focus on operations closer to home. Occupying 4,927 m² of Slacks Creek, around 20 minutes south of the Brisbane CBD, the

WAUGHS LIST BIG-SYDNEY FORBES WITH PLANS

The five-level Forbes Hotel on York Street has come to market looking to be the next entertainment and dining hot-spot in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. It was until late 2014 under lease to Iris Group, before Waugh Hotels took

EAST VILLAGE NOW OPEN AFTER WEST VILLAGE GOODTIME

Fresh from the quest at their West Village in Petersham, the Goodtime Hospitality boys have conquered their newly-acquired East Village in Darlinghurst. Located on Palmer Street, a thoroughfare between arterial roads William and Oxford Streets, the century-old East Village is

TOWN-SAVED PUB HONOURED AS PUB SAVES TOWN

12 local families that banded together to buy the pub and save their town have seen their work pay off as the Border Inn Hotel scoops the Wimmera Business Awards. Apsley is a tiny town of about three hundred souls,