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OPEN ARMS BREAK WITH DELAWARE AS BOTH LOOK NORTH

Posted on June 20th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The partnership between American hospitality giant Delaware North and Open Arms Hospitality has split, as each cite opportunities and pending acquisitions. Delaware North (DN) operates hundreds of hospitality venues across four continents, serving over half a billion customers each year.

BALMAIN TOWN HALL FLIPPED – AND NO LONGER A PUB

Posted on April 18th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Less than a year after selling as a freehold going concern, the former Town Hall Hotel in Balmain has come to market as a mixed-use passive freehold. Developer John Adgemis and associates bought both the Town Hall and the Swanson

PUBLIC HOUSE SELLING FOUR IN HAND AS PRIVATE RESIDENCE

Posted on April 16th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Mitchell Waugh’s Public House Group has listed the famous Four in Hand for alternative uses, looking to transfer the pub licence and gaming and capitalise on the building’s potential. Public House Group (PHG) purchased the formerly two-hatted gastro pub from

LAUNDY BREAKS GROUND ON NEW PUB CONSTRUCTION

Posted on March 7th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
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

GERNER PARTNERS WITH STELLER FOR $35m RESCUE OF THE CONTI

Posted on November 27th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
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

McGUIRES UNLEASH EXPANDED ALEXANDRA HILLS

Posted on August 4th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
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

HAMMOND & CO REMAKE OF THE CLASSIC VICTORIA HOTEL

Posted on July 28th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
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

TEAM BEHIND MARQUIS OF LORNE CLIMB MT ERICA

Posted on July 28th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
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

HISTORIC WELDBOROUGH HOTEL TO RIDE AGAIN

Posted on July 21st, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
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

REVISED FOUR IN HAND NOW OPEN: WAUGH

Posted on July 3rd, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
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