Resetting the race in a vibrant real estate market, a rare greenfield hotel development opportunity is on offer in Sydney’s north-west.
The 3,923sqm site at 27 Douglas Road Kurrajong Heights is “shovel-ready” with an approved Development Application (DA), allowing the immediate commencement of construction of a new hotel and pub facility.
Plans specify a pub with capacity for 300-pax, nine detached accommodation cabins with ensuites plus a manager’s residence, and 75 off-street parking spaces, as well as ancillary services and landscaping.
Formal approval was granted February 2025, and remains valid until March 2030.
The site has dual street access, via Bells Line of Road and Douglas Road, surrounded by an IGA store on the southeastern border and primarily residential occupants on other sides. It offers favourable construction conditions courtesy of gently sloping elevation and predominantly cleared terrain.
The vendor on the sale is a private property owner who is reportedly not a traditional publican, but who identified the land parcel suited to a new hospitality offering for the area and undertook the extensive exercise of obtaining all the required reports and consultation to secure approval.
Kurrajong Heights is on the northwestern edge of metropolitan Sydney, enjoying sweeping views of the Richmond-Hawkesbury peninsula, serving as a gateway to the Blue Mountains region and the regular flow of tourists.
Well placed in the ongoing expansion of Sydney’s urban development, the region is seeing steady population growth, with immediate local catchment in Kurrajong Heights of more than 2,600 residents.
Sources indicate the block could fetch sale price of $3.5 million.
There has been a strong track record of greenfield pub developments in wider Sydney growth regions in recent years, seen in Laundy Hotels’ nearby Brooks Tavern in Jordan Springs and sprawling Marsden Brewhouse at Marsden Park, and to the south the Plough & Ale Tavern at Calderwood. Balmoral Hospitality has found success at the Willowdale Hotel in the south-west and Waterfront Tavern in Shell Cove.
A campaign on Kurrajong Heights is being conducted by JLL Hotels’ Greg Jeloudev and James Smithers through an Expressions of Interest campaign closing Wednesday, 20 May.
“Metropolitan greenfield pub development opportunities are few and far between, particularly those with formal DA approval already secured,” notes Jeloudev.
“The vendor has completed the rigorous approval process and is now ready to hand over to an aspiring hospitality developer.”
