Redevelopment

HARBORD PUB’S QUEST TO BE A HOTEL (AGAIN)

Posted on October 25th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Harbord’s beachside Hotel, traditionally known as the Hilton, is fighting a wave of protest by its wealthy neighbours over an application to permit accommodation via a new structure at the rear. The heritage-listed Habord Beach Hotel was established in 1928,

CHEUNG’S CBH GETS NOD FOR $112m REDEVELOPMENT

Posted on May 8th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Chris Cheung’s C!nc has won hard-fought approval to redevelop the famous Coogee Bay Hotel, ushering in a new era for the beachside icon. Plans were revealed for the iconic Coogee Bay Hotel in 2021, announcing a $111.7 million facelift that

HURLEYS LOOK TO $60m HOTEL PANORAMA

Posted on May 3rd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
The Hurley Hotel Group (HHG) has begun construction on Hotel Panorama, on Adelaide’s Goodwood Road. HHG is a South Australian family-owned business with over four decades’ experience, currently operating ten hotels along with Hurley Cellars. Cox Architecture, a local company

MERIVALE’S MELBOURNE MANOEUVRES

Posted on March 18th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Merivale’s move into Melbourne is under fire, with reports the extensive plan for Tomasetti House is struggling to meet its anticipated opening for this year as the bar-tzar feels the operational pinch. Early 2021 Justin Hemmes’ group shelled out around

PREMIER FIGHTS TO BUILD

Posted on February 23rd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
The Thomas family’s landmark Premier Hotel is battling to get approval for a ground-up overhaul that would see a major mixed-use development on the prominent Nineways intersection at Broadmeadow. An application lodged with City of Newcastle proposed a $34 million

IRIS PUTTING THE PUB INTO IBIS

Posted on February 12th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Publican-developer Iris Capital has won approval on appeal for its plans to reimagine the Ibis Budget Hotel in Wentworthville into an expanded pub hotel facility. Located on a busy corner of the Great Western Highway, close to the Cumberland Highway,

IRIS EYES $77m UPGRADE OF THE PALMS

Posted on February 2nd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Iris Capital is executing plans for a massive $77 million redevelopment of The Palms at Chullora, adding residential buildings and commercial space. Plans were lodged with Canterbury-Bankstown Council for the mixed-use project on The Palms’ 11,744sqm site on the Hume

FEROS SECURES THE GREENS AND FIELDS OF BINGARA

Posted on January 24th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Feros Group has secured the $50 million Bingara Gorge Country Club, approved through Wollondilly Shire Council, to be created within Metro Property Development’s residential precinct. Due to occupy a 7,280sqm parcel of land, adjacent to Bingara Gorge’s golf course in

GREEN LIGHT FOR LAUNDYS’ LATEST GREENFIELD

Posted on October 27th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
The Laundy family and partners have received final approvals for a major new pub development in Sydney’s booming south-west, heralding the creation of the Oxley Ridge Tavern. Plans were submitted by construction company FDC in early 2022 for works on

PADDINGTON’S VILLAGE: IN AND OUT

Posted on October 6th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
Paddington’s celebrated but under threat Village Inn is back in the news, after its fashionable new owner faces increasing push-back on a redevelopment and a neighbour has offered to buy it to save it as a pub. At the start