KEYSTONE CONCLUSION CLOSER AS BREAK-UP IMMINENT
The much-anticipated future of The Keystone Group portfolio remains undetermined, as news emerges of a shrinking short-list and Dixon Hospitality eyeing seven of the 17 venues. After falling foul of financiers, a high-profile campaign for the well-known Keystone portfolio has
SOUTH-SYDNEY PUB OPENINGS TURN IT UP
Summer openings are in bloom, as seen in three hot new offerings in city-fringe Sydney pubs. Surry Hills rises topographically at the city’s southern border like a custodian, often making the most of the vantage in way of cutting-edge concepts
SOUTH-BRISBANE FGC COMES TO MARKET
The Moss St International Hotel just south of Brisbane has come to market as its interstate owner divests to focus on operations closer to home. Occupying 4,927 m² of Slacks Creek, around 20 minutes south of the Brisbane CBD, the
WAUGHS LIST BIG-SYDNEY FORBES WITH PLANS
The five-level Forbes Hotel on York Street has come to market looking to be the next entertainment and dining hot-spot in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. It was until late 2014 under lease to Iris Group, before Waugh Hotels took
EAST VILLAGE NOW OPEN AFTER WEST VILLAGE GOODTIME
Fresh from the quest at their West Village in Petersham, the Goodtime Hospitality boys have conquered their newly-acquired East Village in Darlinghurst. Located on Palmer Street, a thoroughfare between arterial roads William and Oxford Streets, the century-old East Village is
TOWN-SAVED PUB HONOURED AS PUB SAVES TOWN
12 local families that banded together to buy the pub and save their town have seen their work pay off as the Border Inn Hotel scoops the Wimmera Business Awards. Apsley is a tiny town of about three hundred souls,
GROVE HILL PUB TO CLOSE AS OCTOGENARIAN CUTS LOOSE
Outback icon the Grove Hill Hotel will soon close its doors for good, as its octogenarian owner looks to retire and follow the sun. Built in 1934 during the peak of the goldrush in the area, the Grove Hill is
CAMPION WINS RACE TO LANTERN’S COMMODORE
Lane Cove stalwart Graham Campion has emerged as the big-ticket buyer of Lantern’s Commodore Hotel, picking up his coveted second pub for a cool $14.5m. Listed pub group Lantern (ASX: LTN) put the McMahon’s Point beauty up for grabs last
LANTERN LISTING AS UNCLE BUCK’S AND AMBARVALE HEAD TO MARKET
Getting a jump on next week’s AGM, Lantern has listed two of its big assets as news breaks of the top-dollar sale price secured for the Commodore Hotel. Systematically executing a turn-around strategy to reverse the company’s fortunes has seen
OUTCRY AS HISTORIC MELBOURNE PUB ILLEGALLY KNOCKED DOWN
Suspicion has turned to scandal following the illegal demolition of the beloved and historic Corkman Irish Pub in Carlton. The pub was purchased for $4.76 million in October 2014 by an unnamed local developer, and when the lease expired shortly