Just weeks after Sydney’s nightlife was dealt another blow with the sudden closure of Kings Cross icon World Bar, the space will jump again this week to the tune of Cali Club. World Bar had been dominating the sounds of KX and particularly Bayswater Road for almost two decades when it announced its imminent closure […]
NSW Liquor & Gaming has heralded a new era in venue analysis with the new Liquor Regulation 2018 changes including compulsory drug reporting. Amongst a raft of tweaks in the new Liquor Regulation 2018, which took effect 1 September, the regulator has mandated that any venue required to maintain an incident register will also need
Iris Capital has entered the next stage of its controversial Kings Cross development, by withdrawing the DA widely condemned by local interest groups and enlisting input. In January Sam Arnaout’s development company Piccadilly Freehold submitted plans for a $47 million project at a row of five sites in Kings Cross, including The Bourbon and Empire
Inspired by hedonistic hippies and the changing face of Kings Cross, Boogie Mountain will open Friday above the Potts Point Hotel for all your listening and dancing pleasure. Leading the metamorphosis from bawdy gin-joints to gentrified brasseries in the former red light precinct, the multi-level Potts Point Hotel (PPH) has created a space to samba
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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 underbelly, but because the same residents that fought for the lockouts that demolished the late-night
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Funlab is set to open its eighth instalment of putt-putt pub Holey Moley, in the rapidly gentrifying precinct of Kings Cross. The Holey Moley sensation began in 2016, the first venue opening in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, followed in April this year by the second in Melbourne, offering patrons food and beverages around custom-built mini-golf courses.
Key Kings Cross venues will join Keep Sydney Open for the massive MEET ME IN THE CROSS party on 1 July – sustaining the fight against the lockouts and showcasing late-night culture. Solotel’s Kings Cross Hotel, Potts Point Hotel (formerly The Sugarmill) and World Bar will be amongst venues hosting a huge line-up of bands
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A new pub group has re-launched Kings Cross’ famous Sugarmill – repositioning it to suit its increasingly gentrified locale as the Potts Point Hotel. Sydney’s original late-night entertainment zone has been decimated by the crowd-killing effects of the controversial ‘lockout’ laws. Venues that used to trade until dawn or even 24/7 are closing far earlier,
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Potts Point landmark the Vegas Hotel has come to market, with top gaming performance and built-in development potential. A former #1 in Liquor & Gaming’s list of NSW venues, Geoff Redmond’s the Vegas has been dubbed one of the precinct’s best hotels, boasting a 24-hour licence and only 3-hour shutdown on its 30 EGMs. Currently
A troupe of stakeholders has banded together to put to government a strategy allowing recognised ‘safe’ venues exemptions to Sydney’s notorious lockouts and trade restrictions. The plan for broadening exemptions is the result of months of consultation between industry and experts in law and government, and importantly, is based in the existing legislation. No changes
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