The Colosimo’s Momento Hotels has backed up plans for its new $38 million Oran Park Hotel with plans for a second greenfield pub, the Oran Park Tavern.
Sixty kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD, Oran Park has been one of the fastest growing suburbs over the past decade, transitioning from pastural land to welcome a thriving CBD of its own, with shopping centre, library, office buildings and apartment complexes, proximate to a new water park and skate park, playgrounds and sporting fields. The 2016 Census counted 4,765 people in an area of strong employment.
Mid-2019 Momento announced plans for a three-storey ‘super-pub’ likely to become one of the greatest in all of Sydney, featuring a first class restaurant and bistro, woodfire pizzeria and café and picturesque beer garden, and a rooftop cocktail lounge. It will also have two 40-pax cinemas and function rooms on the first floor.
The major project found approval with Sydney Western City Planning Panel in late 2020, and construction is likely to begin in the next few months, following relevant further approvals. Final details are still being finalised on the operation of the cinemas and foodservice.
Stage one of the new venue, bringing the ground floor eateries, is expected to come online around a year after construction begins, meaning opening could be as soon as late 2022. The completed project is expected to be in operation within another six months.
In a clear sign of appreciation for the Park, Momento has now announced a second all-new pub for the precinct, releasing plans for the Oran Park Tavern.
Planning a very different feel to its big sister, the Tavern will showcase local produce, and smoked meats in concept restaurant Fire & Brimstone. It will run live entertainment and bands, have rooms for private functions, a kids’ play area, and its own in-house brewery.
This will be Momento’s third brewery venture, and the group plans to create both regular and non-alcoholic beer, as well as ginger beer, seltzers and even some spirits.
A development application has been submitted to Camden Council and the whole process, including construction, is expected to take at least three years, with all-in costs amounting to around $20 million.
The Perich family are large landholders of Oran Park, and have an active development arm called Greenfields, which is working with Momento.
“It’s a great area and the Perichs are a great family,” offered Marcello Colosimo, Momento Hospitality CEO. “We’re excited to get going.
“The Tavern will be for the locals, showcasing all the sort of things that make a homely, neighbourhood type of concept.”
Although only a few kilometres apart geographically, the Hotel super-pub is slated for the town centre, while the Tavern is in more of an employment zone.
“We like those growing areas. We think the people are great and we want to continue the journey with them to develop some awesome places where they can create memories.”
