Marking a highlight of a career spanning more than five decades, Arthur Laundy yesterday celebrated construction beginning on his Marsden Park Hotel & Brewery by planting a ceremonial shovel in the ground. Stakeholders and representatives of key suppliers to Laundy Hotel Group gathered on a plot of levelled dirt in Marsden Park for the official […]
Hotelier Julian Gerner has secured partnership with expanding developer Steller for the $35 million restoration and expansion of Sorrento’s legendary Conti. Gerner purchased the historic four-storey limestone hotel popularly known as The Conti from long-time owners the Di Pietro family in 2015, along with some adjacent land. After considerable battles with interest groups, earlier this
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The Brisbane-based McGuire family has completed another big pub expansion, unveiling its new construction at the Alexandra Hills Hotel. Alexandra Hills is in Brisbane’s south-east, around 20 kilometres from the CBD. Located on a sprawling site on Route 22 to the coast, the Hotel already housed a dozen motel rooms. But recognising the market for
Anthony Hammond is taking his gastro-pub experience and reinventing Footscray’s tired Hart’s Hotel into an affordable family-focused local boozer. Hammond is one half of the team that created Fitzroy’s acclaimed Builder’s Arms Hotel, with its culinary masterpieces Moon Under Water and more recently Ricky & Pinky Chinese restaurant. Hotel Victoria has long been known as
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After closing suddenly at the end of 2016, Prahran’s Victorian-era Mt Erica Hotel will soon be reopened with a new fit-out and old soul. Furthering and following on from their successes at Fitzroy’s Marquis of Lorne, Will Benjamin, Matt Vero and Callan Hitchens are mid-execution of a big overhaul of the big 1853-built Mt Erica,
The tiny and historic Weldborough Hotel is on the path to a big revival courtesy of some local entrepreneurs, good use of its ancestry, and a whole lot of mountain bikes. The Hotel is the sole pub in the modest town of Weldborough, a popular tourist stop on the A3 through north-east Tasmania, and home
Mitchell Waugh’s PHMG has settled in and overhauled the legendary Four in Hand, reopening with new integration alongside a sustained homage to history in the heritage-listed pub. Bursting onto the scene mid-2015, Public House Management Group (PHMG) let loose the chequebook and amongst a string of acquisitions came purchase of Paddington’s Royal Hotel, the Woollahra
Solotel has taken the reins at Newtown’s landmark Marlborough Hotel, furthering its grip on the inner west and installing publican of the year Amanda Verratti to further Public House successes. Following announcement of the acquisition in April, Bruce Solomon’s group took the keys to ‘The Marly’ this month and have begun plans for applying their
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Ipswich publican Craig Wise is reviving one of the area’s oldest pubs, bringing back an old name with a new look and feel. What was the Irish-themed Squealing Pig has returned to its former moniker of the Federal Hotel, under which it opened back in 1907. But in response to what he sees as a
After several years in the wilderness, Richmond’s iconic Rising Sun Hotel is coming back to life – reassured of remaining part of Melbourne’s hotel landscape. Pat Reardon (Sr) bought the leasehold business in the late 90s, furthering the family’s history in the Melbourne pub scene that began in the early 60s. The end of the
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