IRIS NEARS KINGS CROSS $47m DEVELOPMENT AS WOWSERS HUDDLE
Iris’ proposed $47m development in Kings Cross is under attack before it begins, with a local interest group fighting to scare Council into blocking the proposal. Kings Cross is back in the headlines, no longer for scandal or its infamous
PEET OFFERS UP FLAGSTONE ‘FUTURE’ PUB
Publicly-listed Peet is offering up a prime tavern site at the centre of its huge Flagstone master development. The greater Flagstone development is set to be one of Australia’s largest urban zoned greenfield projects, destined to become home to over
MERIVALE TO THROW MILLION-DOLLAR POST-XMAS STAFF PARTY
After a record year of acquisitions, bar king Justin Hemmes is throwing a record-breaking bash for around 3,000 employees, and closing the Merivale empire for a day to do it. Hemmes had a big 2017, the second half ushering around
STRADBROKE ISLAND HOTEL AND RETAIL ON OFFER
The idyllic Stradbroke Island Beach Hotel has come to market, as the dominant hospitality business on the Queensland tourist destination. The Hotel, known as Straddie Day Spa for its resort-style facilities, occupies a big 3,267sqm headland site at Point Lookout
FERMANIS’ RETREAT TO AUCTION
Abbotsford’s storied Retreat Hotel will go under the hammer as a vacant freehold, to optimise the buyer pool for the development potential site. Built in 1915, the modest and aptly named Retreat is a local landmark, on the corner of
POOLE’S KEVINGTON HOTEL HEADS TO MARKET
One of Victoria’s most history-smacked pubs has come to market, offering riverside acres in a former goldrush town. Built in 1862 as Garrett's Beer House, the Kevington Hotel is the last surviving pub of many that sprang up following the
NARELLAN HOTEL PUTS UP NAZ MAN CHALLENGE
Public House Group’s Narellan Hotel is gorging on the success of a good ol’ fashioned eating challenge, recently daring punters to take on the 3-kilogram bucket of ‘Grim Reaper’ chilli chicken wings. The promotion is dubbed the Naz Man Challenge,
PUBLICAN GROUP SINKS INTO RECEIVERSHIP DESPITE DIXON SWOOP
Despite divesting its entire portfolio late 2017, the beleaguered Publican Group has been put into voluntary liquidation. The cashed-up Dixon Hotel Group – since rebranded to Australian Venue Co (AVC) – bought the clutch of nine Publican Group venues in
PUBLICAN JAILED OVER PREMIER HOTEL FRAUD AND ARSON
The failed owner of Albany’s historic Premier Hotel has pleaded guilty and received ten years over a scam to fake a robbery and arson in order to claim insurance. Mid-2016 news emerged that lessee Graeme Roderick Cooper – new operator
MARY CRAWLEY’S TATTERSALLS HOTEL DESTROYED BY FIRE
The life and love of 93-year-old publican Mary Crawley has been lost, with outback cornerstone the Tattersalls Hotel destroyed by fire. The 1884-built Tattersalls sits on a stretch of the Mitchell Highway 136 kilometres north of Bourke, on the NSW/Queensland
