Category: Hospitality Industry

Sydney live music legend the Lansdowne Hotel is taking it to the people, broadcasting talented acts over the world wide web. Having recently celebrated 100 years entertaining Sydney-siders, The Lansdowne has partnered with Music Australia to begin Lansdowne TV to a broader audience, presented by Jack Daniel’s. The concept is video content, only available online,…

Rockhampton welcomed back its beloved Leichhardt Hotel last Wednesday when it reopened after a complete rebuild. Operated by QVC, a joint venture between Australian Venue Co and Coles’ former Spirit Hotels, the hotel has now put a contemporary twist on the Australian cowboy spirit in its country-meets-city vibe. The uniquely styled venue begins with its…

The elegant Clifton Hotel in Melbourne’s east is being sold by receivers out of Jon Adgemis’ floundering Public Hospitality portfolio, offering a rare property and hospitality play in the southern capital. Public Hospitality was formed in 2021 by the former KPMG banker. During COVID the company rapidly expanded, accumulating over twenty pub assets, primarily in…

Gallagher and Co have consolidated back to the capital, passing their large-format Terrigal Hotel to locals the Hunter family’s Hunter Hotel Group. One of the most prominent venues on the Central Coast, it occupies a large site of roughly 4K sqm in the heart of Terrigal’s beachfront precinct, with expansive bar and dining spaces, high-capacity…

A private investor is offering up the freehold or tenancy of the vacant Gamekeepers Inn in Bonnie Brook, north-west of Melbourne CBD. The Inn is an English-inspired tavern and function venue providing a large open plan ground floor, with indoor-outdoor alfresco area, kitchen, and a function space, and storage and an office on the upper…

Ray Reilly has listed his inner west icon the White Cockatoo Hotel as the group progresses with portfolio rejuvenation. A 30-year industry veteran, Reilly bought the three level pub in 2017, then known as the West Village, continuing an expansion that had begun with acquisition of Newtown’s Sydney Park Hotel the year prior. The new…

Only a few short months after closing, Yackandandah’s local, Yackandandah Hotel (‘The Yack’, also known as The Bottom Pub) has now reopened under new ownership. The regional Victorian pub, located on well-frequented tourism routes near Albury-Wodonga, resumed trade on 1 August under the hands of hospitality professionals and new Yackandandah locals Jackson Cartwright, Sian Haycock,…

The Comiskey Group has revealed plans for a $250 million expansion of its Sandstone Point Hotel and neighbouring Holiday Resort in Queensland’s Moreton Bay, promising to become the state’s next premier tourism hub. Sandstone Point Hotel and its accommodation resort is a sprawling operation set on seven hectares of waterfront land opposite Bribie Island, with…

The Gibbons family has divested their well-rounded Panorama Hotel Motel in Bathurst to the ‘famed’ and acclaimed partnership of Harris and Narvo. The Panorama is set on a high-profile bend in main drag Durham Street, adjacent to the Bathurst Showground. It provides public bar and bistro, gaming with 12 machines and a function space on…

Redcape has announced another big step in its expansion plans, with acquisition of the Orion Hotel in Springfield for around $30 million and another capital raise to fund further ambition. The Orion Hotel is within the Orion Springfield Central shopping centre, in the master-planned Springfield City development south-west of Brisbane. It was opened in 2015,…