Financial services giant Moelis Australia has secured an exclusivity agreement for potential purchase of the iconic Beach Hotel at Byron Bay for a record-setting price of “above $100 million”. The Beach, known locally as the ‘Top Pub’, began life in the 90s, built by Paul Hogan off-sider John Cornell, for around $9 million. The big […]
Goulburn’s elegant Southern Railway Hotel has sold to an unnamed, up-and-coming hotelier – just weeks after they secured the freehold and lease of the town’s Empire Hotel. The Southern Railway was built 1872 on sizeable 1,531sqm lot as the Coolavin Hotel, directly across from Goulburn train station and adjacent to what is now a Woolworths
Hallmark Group is unveiling its lavish and lunacy-inspired reinvention of famous Gold Coast nightspot Shooters, daring patrons to leave their sanity at the door and enter Asylum. Billed as a “refuge for errant psyches and wayward types” Asylum is an addled reinvention of the landmark venue on Orchid Avenue, melding an electric clinical decor and
Another De Angelis has taken the title to another big south-west Sydney pub, bringing the Ingleburn freehold and operation under one roof through Bonnie Hotels. De Angelis Hotels & Investments (DHI) has been the established tenant at the Top100 Ingleburn Hotel, near Campbelltown, around 50 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. In October the passive freehold
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Western Australia’s hospitality elite gathered at Crown Towers on Monday night to celebrate the 2019 AHA & Aon Hospitality Awards for Excellence at the Byron Bay Premium Lager Gala Ball. The Awards recognise the State’s leading hospitality venues and staff across 41 award categories, in the disciplines of community service, training, presentation, reinvention, food and
Fraser Short has laid down the gauntlet in the form of free beer for everyone if Sydney’s much-anticipated light rail succeeds in delivering passengers before Christmas. After four long years of construction, currently marking 18 months since its prior scheduled opening, the NSW government has indicated Sydney’s CBD and Southeast Light Rail will be operational
The former, somewhat notorious McLaren’s Landing sites have come to market through receivers, offering over a hectare of beachfront hospitality on South Stradbroke Island. The once-thriving day resort features two jetties, bars, seating area and facilities for functions. McLaren’s Landing famously hosted wild parties for around a thousand people, on a site only accessible by
Another big NSW pub has transacted, with Sam Arnaout’s Iris Group taking the title for the Sportsman’s Hotel in Blacktown from Paul Irvin Hotel Group. The Sportsman’s is a large-format single storey pub near Blacktown train station, around 37 kilometres west of the Sydney CBD. The pub plays to its name, offering cold beer and
A man that killed another with his van minutes after an altercation in the carpark of a pub, has had his murder conviction downgraded and will soon be eligible for parole. On 21 February 2014 Michael Meakin, 50, arrived at the hotel in western Sydney around 2:15pm, where he consumed full strength schooners of beer
Federal agency AUSTRAC has been focusing on compliance issues in gaming venues across Australia, potentially bringing significant problems for pubs not exercising best-practises. Any pub in Australia that operate or holds entitlements to over 15 Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs) must have an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF) program specific to the venue.
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