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SPECIAL FEATURE: THE RENOVATION STRATEGY

Posted on August 15th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
In recent years the processes for pub renovation and development, particularly in New South Wales, have become conflated with consultants, besieged with bureaucracy, and laden with expensive and time-consuming traps for young gamers. This a story about pub development. Advancement.

NEW NORMAL: GETTING GAMING GOING AGAIN

Posted on May 11th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
As the timeline for pubs resuming trade comes into focus, many operators are considering how to approach the operation of gaming rooms in a post-pandemic world. Perhaps more important even than the guidelines dictated by the Federal and state governments

GOOD TIME TAKES FREDDY TO THE GOLD COAST

Posted on August 30th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
Good Time Group has added to its portfolio of vibrant venues with the all-new Fat Freddy’s Beach Bar & Diner, under Broadbeach’s 5-star Avani apartment tower. Fat Freddy’s quietly opened its doors on the weekend, delivering an evolution of the

FEROS UNVEILS ALL-NEW UNION PLACE HOTEL

Posted on July 12th, 2019 by Clyde Mooney
John Feros’ JDA Hotels has announced the opening of its large-scale pub development at the former Jannali Inn, welcoming Union Place Hotel to the Shire. Feros acquired the Jannali Inn in 2015, from builder-operators the Durkin family, who built the

LEVY REOPENS SURRY HILLS’ STAR AS LOOK TO THE FUTURE

Posted on August 10th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Marcus Levy has opened his reinvented pub in Surry Hills, leaving behind the grunge of the Evening Star for a sophisticated female-friendly cheeky offering to the locals and residents. The Evening Star long represented the working-class roots of its precinct,