North Sydney’s historic Firehouse Hotel will become the nucleus of a massive 35-storey tower through $121 million plans for its airspace. Publican Mark Barry has owned the pub since 2001, overseeing its conversion from a heritage-listed fire station, built in 1895. It occupies a modest block in North Sydney’s Walker Street, the two-storey Victorian building […]
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Iris Capital has entered the next stage of its controversial Kings Cross development, by withdrawing the DA widely condemned by local interest groups and enlisting input. In January Sam Arnaout’s development company Piccadilly Freehold submitted plans for a $47 million project at a row of five sites in Kings Cross, including The Bourbon and Empire
Iris has changed tack in its massive East End development, now considering a hotel operator for an alternative use in the former David Jones building. The four-stage development at Newcastle’s East End originally conceived 16 large apartments to occupy the landmark building, but these were never released to market as the company says it was
Merivale has responded to implications the days of ivy are numbered, clarifying news to demolish the site in favour of an accommodation hotel are “still so far from final” and it is business as usual. Justin Hemmes’ bought the site at 330 George St back in 2004 for $22 million. In 2007 the Group launched
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As tourism-driven capex continues to flow into Australia’s cities, two Sydney institutions call time ahead of ambitious developments. Jacksons on George has stood at the gateway to The Rocks since 1986, at times considered a rite of passage of youth coming into town. Five years’ ago operations at Jacksons were taken over by Gallagher Hotels,
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 underbelly, but because the same residents that fought for the lockouts that demolished the late-night
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Sam Arnaout’s expansive Iris Capital has lodged plans for a massive residential and hospitality development in Kings Cross to replace The Bourbon and Empire Hotels and surrounds. Around the group’s 2015 purchase of The Bourbon from Chris Cheung, Arnaout orchestrated acquisition of several adjacent lots, ending at Roslyn Street with the purchase of the Empire
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Lewis Hotel Group has landed approval to take The Fiddler to another level, with plans for a four-storey 78-room accommodation wing to the big Hills district pub. The large-format The Fiddler at the intersection of Commercial and Windsor Roads Rouse Hill has been a cornerstone of the Hills precinct for generations, the premise first established
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Martin Palmer is seeking approval for revised development plans at his $40 million project at the award-winning Highway Hotel, Plympton. Palmer Hospitality operates the celebrated Highway and Warradale Hotels, and has been exploring plans for a large residential and retail development at the Plympton site. A former submission proposed four stages of development, beginning with
Council is expected to approve plans tomorrow for a $15m 26-storey tower atop the 153-year-old Great Western Hotel in Melbourne. Described as one of the most intact goldrush era pubs in Melbourne, the Great Western was built in 1864 on a squat 325m² block on the corner of King and Little Bourke Streets. The pub
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