The award-winning Feros Group has sold flagship the Rocksia Hotel to Hall of Famers Bill and Mario Gravanis’ Oscars Hotels for a quick $36 million. Both Chris Feros and the Gravanis brothers were central to the recent AHA NSW Awards for Excellence, where Feros’ new build The Prince took home four Awards including Hotel of […]
Liquor & Gaming in NSW has announced the rollout of the new ‘Centralised Monitoring System’ linking all EGMs and venues operating gaming machines. The new high-tech Centralised Monitoring System (CMS) incorporates updated technology to provide the regulator with real-time monitoring and collection data. This is said to simplify regulatory obligations of operators, but will also
Solotel has thrown open the doors to its new venue in Southbank, after an epic restoration and conversion of an historic landmark. The former Collins Place is a classic balcony-clad two-storey Queenslander built in 1889. It has been preserved amid the $600 million Southpoint development going on around – and underneath – the heritage-listed structure,
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Hoteliers jumping through hoops have again become targets for mainstream media critical of anything relating to gambling or liquor that they don’t understand or like. The Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) in NSW has a long-established system of considering applications to increase the number of poker machines in pubs, known as the Local Impact
St.George Bank recently hosted its fourth annual Pub Design Tour, treating hoteliers to a night of insights into some on-trend renovations in Sydney pubs. The evening began with coaches transporting a posse of publicans to Public House Group and the Fallon brothers’ exquisite The Buena, and its instalment of gastropub institution Bistro Moncur. Designers SJB
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Lucky Toowoomba institution the Shamrock Hotel has hit the market following a big refurbishment, as the Lees look to other ventures. Seona and Wayne Lee bought the large-format pub four years ago and have chipped away at improvements since, unveiling the new Shooters Super TAB sports bar last year. (video below) The Hotel counts four
As NSW ponders whether to loosen laws on dog-friendly areas in pubs, Dan O’Hara’s Collector Hotel at Parramatta is embracing fur-babies with its new weekend Yappy Hour. The Collector is a down-town pub in Sydney’s second CBD, Parramatta, and appropriately caters to hordes of office workers and after-workers throughout the week. Like the Sydney CBD,
A dangerous situation in an east-Brisbane pub has been fended off courtesy of bumbling bandits and a gaming patron with a big stool. Around 11:30 on Monday night (27 November) two masked men entered Coles’ Lord Stanley Hotel on Stanley St, one carrying a rifle the other a machete and a black cloth bag. The
Adelaide property aristocracy the Polites family is embroiled in a dispute over the failed tenant at its heritage-listed Ambassadors Hotel. The majestic Ambassadors Hotel has been a dominant sight on King William Street in the heart of Adelaide since 1881. Its décor and offering reflect its historic importance, but with “quirk and eccentricity” for flavour.
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Hotelier Julian Gerner has secured partnership with expanding developer Steller for the $35 million restoration and expansion of Sorrento’s legendary Conti. Gerner purchased the historic four-storey limestone hotel popularly known as The Conti from long-time owners the Di Pietro family in 2015, along with some adjacent land. After considerable battles with interest groups, earlier this
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