UNIVERSAL SWAPS NEWTOWN FOR LORD BOB
Universal Hotels has exchanged its thumping Newtown Hotel for the iconic Lord Roberts in Darlinghurst, in a deal valued at around $20 million. The Newtown Hotel resides on a high exposure 700+sqm corner of the bustling King Street retail and
PUBLIC’S PADDO PUB SOLD
Another of the distressed Public Hospitality portfolio has sold, seeing Paddington’s long-standing ‘Three Weeds’ going to an unnamed “private investment syndicate”. The former Rose, Shamrock and Thistle, more commonly known as Three Weeds, is one of the precinct’s historic pubs,
SOUTHERN HOTEL TAPS SUN FOR POWER BOOST
Toowoomba’s Southern Hotel plans to expand facilities and go solar, with a whopping six hundred and twenty nine new power-generating panels. The pub lodged a “minor change” with its local council to erect five solar shade structures. These will cover
O’HARAS ON TRACK AT PARRAMATTA
The O’Hara Group has expanded its presence in Parramatta, quietly opening an all-new brownfield pub in the heart of the CBD. Station Hotel is a all-new, multi-level watering hole on Church St, opposite Westfield, for up to 450 patrons. It
BOUNCING BACK WITH SMALL BUSINESS RESTRUCTURING
The Albany Hotel is one of potentially many pubs that is in business today after legally wiping most of its debt, courtesy of Australia’s new-ish Small Business Restructuring (SBR) laws. Turning 60, Neville Walton went through with a long-held dream
STAND UP SPARKS MONDAY REVIVAL
Australia’s last remaining pub theatre, the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney’s Wooloomooloo, now has another string to its bow thanks to support from the Office of the 24-Hour Economy Commissioner’s Live Performance Venue Grant Program. Due to this program, Monday
TOWN HALL HOTEL BALMAIN SELLS AT AUCTION
Balmain’s beleaguered Town Hall Hotel is back, after selling this week to a ‘restitutional’ investor as the Public Hospitality portfolio flounders. The Town Hall Hotel was built in 1888 on a corner of arterial Darling Street, opposite the suburb’s actual
AMPS TO ALES: GUITAR MAKER TUNES INTO PUBS
A live music venue is looking to become a pub, planning food and drinks and to even add its own brewery to the mix. Sunshine Coast venue Norton Music Factory started out in 2012 as a custom guitar shop, later
HOW AUSSIE PUBS CAN OWN THE WINTER SEASON
Despite inclement temperatures and flagging footfall, there are things operators can do to get patrons off the couch and in for a hot meal and good time. Paul Hadida, SevenRooms’ managing director APAC, offers some perspective for publicans looking to
PICKLED POSSUM ON THE BLOCK
Institution of Sydney’s lower north shore, the Pickled Possum in Neutral Bay, is being sold as a vacant freehold going concern through receivers and managers. A staple of the precinct since 1981, the colourful, eclectic late-night karaoke bar, famous amongst
