A private investor is offering up the freehold or tenancy of the vacant Gamekeepers Inn in Bonnie Brook, north-west of Melbourne CBD.
The Inn is an English-inspired tavern and function venue providing a large open plan ground floor, with indoor-outdoor alfresco area, kitchen, and a function space, and storage and an office on the upper level, plus off-street parking for around 100 vehicles.
It resides on a high-visibility strategic site on the Melton Highway, exposed to circa 30K passing vehicles daily, and less than an hour from both the city and the airport.
The site is zoned Special Use, being within a major residential growth corridor that is part of the City of Melton UGZ Planning Scheme, ushering infrastructure upgrades, with better roads and new rail corridors.
The adjacent Fraser Rise and Rockbank, each only minutes away, are two of Melbourne’s fastest-growing suburbs, recording populations swelling around 26 and 15 per cent (respectively).
Occupying an 8,350sqm lot, the Gamekeeper carries huge future development potential, permitted to facilitate a business catering to diners, functions and receptions, accommodation, retail or ‘place of assembly’.
A Melbourne-based lawyer has held the property for almost 25 years. A lease to the operators expired last year, prompting some minor works that saw the exterior painted and internals retouched, to get it “ready it for its next chapter”.
Looking to recycle the capital, the title is being offered with price expectations of $4-4.5 million.
Alternatively, the owner is open to a long lease, offering favourable terms for an approved operator.
“The Gamekeepers Inn sits perfectly poised for someone to come in and capitalise on the amazing growth in the area,” says Maxwell Collins Commercial’s Mat George, marketing the property.
