renovation

NO MORE MONKEY BUSINESS: WOODPORT

Posted on September 17th, 2025 by Jane Louise
Beloved Central Coast hospitality icon the Sunken Monkey has recently closed for extensive renovations and a rebrand back to days of old. The pub, which sits on the banks of Erina Creek, will now be known again as the Woodport

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.

STRADBROKE ISLAND BEACH HOTEL EMBARKS ON TRANSFORMATION

Posted on March 26th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney
Moreton Hospitality’s The Beach Hotel, on Stradbroke Island, is geared to begin its transformative and innovative renovation. With a final trading date of 29 March, the hotel, known as ‘Straddie Hotel’ on socials, will renew its focus on sustainability, community

PUB’S HISTORY KEPT ALIVE WITH THEATRE RENOVATION

Posted on July 24th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Long-time Perth favourite, the Guildford Hotel, raised the curtain at the re-opening of its Vaudeville Hall this month. A $2.8 million renovation extended the hotel’s indoors/outdoors facilities, transforming adjoining Vaudeville Hall (‘The Hall’) into a casual beer hall and dining

MEERS UNVEILS GUILDFORD’S GRAND CELEBRATION OF CULTURE

Posted on May 29th, 2024 by Jane Louise
The Guildford Hotel’s long-awaited relaunch happened over the weekend, coinciding celebrations with the Back to Guildford Street Festival. Cumberland City Council ran the free, family-friendly street festival to launch the upgrade of Guildford Laneway, built to be a safer environment

ROYAL REFURB FIT FOR A KING

Posted on May 20th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Public House Management Group (PHMG) has recently completed a $1 million refurbishment and makeover of its heritage pub The Royal Hotel, at Five Ways Paddington. The building, erected in 1888 and purchased by PHMG in 2015, has seen all floors

HISTORIC SUSSEX HOTEL UNVEILS ROLLING RENO

Posted on September 28th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The historic Sussex Hotel in Walkerville has unveiled the first of several stages of renovation, bringing reinvigoration and new ideas to the classic structure and its retail surrounds. The pub concerned was originally established as the Sussex Arms in 1843.

FEDDY IN DENI TO RISE AGAIN VIA NEW INVESTOR MODEL

Posted on September 1st, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Small-scale partial investors will revive the magnificent Federal Hotel in Deniliquin via a ‘fractional investing’ scheme driven by pioneering entertainment company Omecca. The Federal Hotel, on the town centre corner of Napier and Cressy street in Deniliquin, was built in

BEAUTIFUL BELVEDERE IS BACK

Posted on October 28th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Drinx Group has relaunched its landmark Belvedere Hotel, following a portfolio shuffle and big-budget renovation. Drinx and AT Hotels listed the Belvedere, along with other large footprint pubs the Grand Central and Full Moon, in February of last year. The