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Sydney Morning Herald
10-07-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Strike! Melbourne's tenpin bowling future secured in $10m deal
It's a big price for the Salvation Army headquarters. The charity manages a huge portfolio of properties providing accommodation for some of the country's neediest people. The Salvation Army Housing's most recent annual report shows its total assets reached $153.7 million in 2023-24, up 7.2 per cent from the previous year. It owns or part-owns just 23 per cent of the 1850 properties it manages. The Salvos moved into the new 7878 sq m building at 99 Railway Road in 2008 after selling its Surrey Hills HQ for around $12 million. While fully leased by the charity, it has sub-let space over the years and the building is being sold with a 9.8 year average lease term. The all-electric 5.5 Star NABERS-rated building has four upper levels of office and a three-level basement car park for 204 vehicles. It's close to Blackburn railway station. JLL's Tim Carr, Josh Rutman, Piper Dedrick and MingXuan Li have the listing. Maha on Chapel Restaurateur Shane Delia is selling the Chapel Street premises where he operates Maha East at the Windsor end of the strip. The property at 36 Chapel Street has a fresh eight-year lease to Maha East with an eight-year option. Upstairs is leased to a newly established media organisation, the International Film Festival Awards, set up in 2021 by Jatinder Kumar. Records show Delia paid $2.2 million in 2016. The property returns a total $138,655 a year and is expected to fetch around $2.65 million. It's going to auction on August 6 as part of next month's Burgess Rawson portfolio auction. Agents Shaun Venables, David Napoleone and Hamish Bowen are handling enquiries. The 50-year old Burgess Rawson agency was recently acquired by global giant CBRE. Man cave The 'man cave' belonging to former Melbourne Cricket Club president David Jones fetched $2.2 million last week with a local buyer beating four others bidding for the Cremorne warehouse. Jones stored his Ferrari and other car memorabilia at the 290 sq m property at 116 Green Street. Bids opened at $1.6 million, with serial auction bidder Danny Wallis - a big buyer on The Block television program - leaning on his own red Ferrari. The property was on the market at $1.8 million and sold 22 per cent above the reserve. Colliers' Ben Baines and Matt Knox and Teska Carson's Michael Taylor and Matthew Field ran the campaign. Taylor said all the bidders planned to use it for the same purpose as Jones. Mini logistics A Sydney buyer has swooped on the mini-Coles logistics centre in Malvern, paying $7.5 million after it passed in at auction at $7 million. The price for 1 Edsall Street, at the rear of the Glenferrie Road Coles supermarket, reflected a sharp yield of 3.8 per cent. The 777 sq m property provides logistics, cold storage and administrative support for the supermarket. Coles' lease runs until 2031 and has two further 10-year options. Records show the vendors had held the property since at least 1987 – paying $1.3 million for the site decades before Coles set up shop on the strip. CBRE's Jamie Hess, Sam Guest, David Minty and James Douglas negotiated the deal under instructions from Mark Ruttner at First Valuation Group. Flat out A block of flats in Brighton, with a permit for 10 townhouses, sold to a local developer for $8 million. The flats at 467 New Street are on a large 1629 sq m site near Elsternwick Park and a short stroll from Elwood Beach. The sale represents a substantial premium on the last sale. It last changed hands in 2023, when a joint venture between experienced property players, Michael Robinson, Nick Brown and Georgina Goldsworthy paid $5.52 million. It's been a while since the market has seen such a premium added to the value after obtaining a permit. JLL's Jesse Radisich, Maddie Pizzey and Xander Yeo, did the deal. Nearby at 79 Ormond Road in the Elwood Village, another block of flats and shops fetched $5.38 million. Records show Nick Williams, who heads up Hudson Conway – a construction behemoth in its heyday building Crown Casino – has put a caveat over the property. The vendors paid $840,000 for the 16-unit block 40 years ago. It's on an 870 sq m block of land on the corner of Beach Avenue, opposite the popular Blue Tongue wine bar. CBRE agents Nathan Mufale, Alex Brierly, David Minty, Scott Hawthorne and Jing Jun Heng ran the campaign. Williams was represented by Advise Transact. Childcare sale Property giant Charter Hall has offloaded another childcare centre in a bumper $12.5 million off-market deal. The sale of the Highett Centre, leased to Only About Children, reflected a tight yield of 5 per cent. The buyer is understood to be a local Victorian family who is ploughing their cash into the sector. The centre has a long 20-year lease and returns $630,456 a year. It is in the heart of the Highett shopping village at 491 Highett Road, behind the railway station, in a converted office building. CBRE's Sandro Peluso, Marcello Caspani-Muto and Jimmy Tat did the deal which is nipping at the heels of some of the bigger transactions they recently managed. Last year, a centre in Cremorne, Sydney, fetched $18.5 million on a 4.69 per cent yield and an East Brighton creche sold for $16.5 million on a 4.9 per cent yield.
The Age
10-07-2025
- Business
- The Age
Strike! Melbourne's tenpin bowling future secured in $10m deal
It's a big price for the Salvation Army headquarters. The charity manages a huge portfolio of properties providing accommodation for some of the country's neediest people. The Salvation Army Housing's most recent annual report shows its total assets reached $153.7 million in 2023-24, up 7.2 per cent from the previous year. It owns or part-owns just 23 per cent of the 1850 properties it manages. The Salvos moved into the new 7878 sq m building at 99 Railway Road in 2008 after selling its Surrey Hills HQ for around $12 million. While fully leased by the charity, it has sub-let space over the years and the building is being sold with a 9.8 year average lease term. The all-electric 5.5 Star NABERS-rated building has four upper levels of office and a three-level basement car park for 204 vehicles. It's close to Blackburn railway station. JLL's Tim Carr, Josh Rutman, Piper Dedrick and MingXuan Li have the listing. Maha on Chapel Restaurateur Shane Delia is selling the Chapel Street premises where he operates Maha East at the Windsor end of the strip. The property at 36 Chapel Street has a fresh eight-year lease to Maha East with an eight-year option. Upstairs is leased to a newly established media organisation, the International Film Festival Awards, set up in 2021 by Jatinder Kumar. Records show Delia paid $2.2 million in 2016. The property returns a total $138,655 a year and is expected to fetch around $2.65 million. It's going to auction on August 6 as part of next month's Burgess Rawson portfolio auction. Agents Shaun Venables, David Napoleone and Hamish Bowen are handling enquiries. The 50-year old Burgess Rawson agency was recently acquired by global giant CBRE. Man cave The 'man cave' belonging to former Melbourne Cricket Club president David Jones fetched $2.2 million last week with a local buyer beating four others bidding for the Cremorne warehouse. Jones stored his Ferrari and other car memorabilia at the 290 sq m property at 116 Green Street. Bids opened at $1.6 million, with serial auction bidder Danny Wallis - a big buyer on The Block television program - leaning on his own red Ferrari. The property was on the market at $1.8 million and sold 22 per cent above the reserve. Colliers' Ben Baines and Matt Knox and Teska Carson's Michael Taylor and Matthew Field ran the campaign. Taylor said all the bidders planned to use it for the same purpose as Jones. Mini logistics A Sydney buyer has swooped on the mini-Coles logistics centre in Malvern, paying $7.5 million after it passed in at auction at $7 million. The price for 1 Edsall Street, at the rear of the Glenferrie Road Coles supermarket, reflected a sharp yield of 3.8 per cent. The 777 sq m property provides logistics, cold storage and administrative support for the supermarket. Coles' lease runs until 2031 and has two further 10-year options. Records show the vendors had held the property since at least 1987 – paying $1.3 million for the site decades before Coles set up shop on the strip. CBRE's Jamie Hess, Sam Guest, David Minty and James Douglas negotiated the deal under instructions from Mark Ruttner at First Valuation Group. Flat out A block of flats in Brighton, with a permit for 10 townhouses, sold to a local developer for $8 million. The flats at 467 New Street are on a large 1629 sq m site near Elsternwick Park and a short stroll from Elwood Beach. The sale represents a substantial premium on the last sale. It last changed hands in 2023, when a joint venture between experienced property players, Michael Robinson, Nick Brown and Georgina Goldsworthy paid $5.52 million. It's been a while since the market has seen such a premium added to the value after obtaining a permit. JLL's Jesse Radisich, Maddie Pizzey and Xander Yeo, did the deal. Nearby at 79 Ormond Road in the Elwood Village, another block of flats and shops fetched $5.38 million. Records show Nick Williams, who heads up Hudson Conway – a construction behemoth in its heyday building Crown Casino – has put a caveat over the property. The vendors paid $840,000 for the 16-unit block 40 years ago. It's on an 870 sq m block of land on the corner of Beach Avenue, opposite the popular Blue Tongue wine bar. CBRE agents Nathan Mufale, Alex Brierly, David Minty, Scott Hawthorne and Jing Jun Heng ran the campaign. Williams was represented by Advise Transact. Childcare sale Property giant Charter Hall has offloaded another childcare centre in a bumper $12.5 million off-market deal. The sale of the Highett Centre, leased to Only About Children, reflected a tight yield of 5 per cent. The buyer is understood to be a local Victorian family who is ploughing their cash into the sector. The centre has a long 20-year lease and returns $630,456 a year. It is in the heart of the Highett shopping village at 491 Highett Road, behind the railway station, in a converted office building. CBRE's Sandro Peluso, Marcello Caspani-Muto and Jimmy Tat did the deal which is nipping at the heels of some of the bigger transactions they recently managed. Last year, a centre in Cremorne, Sydney, fetched $18.5 million on a 4.69 per cent yield and an East Brighton creche sold for $16.5 million on a 4.9 per cent yield.
Scotsman
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Michael Pedersen and Gemma Cairney to host The List Festival Awards 2025
Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen and broadcaster and producer Gemma Cairney will host The List Festival Awards 2025, following a highly successful inaugural ceremony in 2024. The art and culture publication's second annual Festival Awards will return to the stunning Johnnie Walker Princes Street's Label Studio to shine a light on the rich array of art, book, film, fringe and international festivals taking place in the city every summer. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Designed to cover the breadth of cultural offerings during the most exciting festival month of the arts calendar, The List will pay tribute to the artists who make this very special programme an actuality. The awards ceremony is in partnership with Johnnie Walker Princes Street. No stranger to awards ceremonies, prize-winning poet Michael Pedersen is the Writer In Residence at The University Of Edinburgh and was named the new Edinburgh Makar in 2024. His 2022 debut prose Boy Friends was a Sunday Times Critics' Choice and was shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction Book at Scotland's National Book Awards. Pedersen is also a recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and is the co-founder of the literary production house Neu! Reekie!. Broadcaster and writer Gemma Cairney is best known for her work with BBC Radio 6 Music, where she interviewed cultural icons like Tracey Emin, Kelley Deal, and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Currently based in Scotland, Cairney is on the board of the Jupiter Arland Foundation and has been the chair of Edinburgh Art Festival since 2022. Following the publication of her first book in 2017, Cairney is currently working on her second novel The Immortal Sisterhood which is due to be published next year. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The List Festival Awards aim to support both Scottish and international arts and talent across all festivals, with each of the 12 winners to receive a cash award of at least £500. Two of these winners will head to the SoHo Playhouse in New York to perform their show. The awards are hosted in partnership with Johnnie Walker Princes Street and additional award supporters include Set! Productions, Edinburgh Marriott Hotel, LNER, Ghost Light Theatre, Pure Life Plus, The Pitt, Data Thistle, Adelaide Fringe, SoHo Playhouse, and Sit Up Awards. Michael Pedersen The publication's 40th anniversary year will see the inclusion of four new awards to further spotlight the range of talent the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has to offer. The categories for The List Festival Awards 2025 are: ART - Best rising Scottish artist BOOKS - Best rising Scottish author FILM - Best Scottish film FRINGE – Dance FRINGE – Comedy FRINGE - Kids FRINGE - LGBTQIA+ FRINGE - International Fringe Encore Series Edinburgh Prize FRINGE - Sit-Up Award for best production with a social impact FRINGE - Best show from Adelaide FRINGE - Spirit Of The Fringe Award INTERNATIONAL - Best show With a year-round monthly magazine (weekly during the festival) and an extensive digital platform, The List publishes and distributes information on events and entertainment and is a must-read for finding out what's on. The List reviews approximately 400 shows across the summer festivals offering some of the most engaging and extensive content for audiences. Gemma Cairney Brian Donaldson, Editor of The List, comments, We struck gold last year with Zara Janjua and Mark Nelson as our inaugural awards-hosting double act, and the challenge was in trying to follow that. We feel very fortunate to have secured another dream team in Gemma Cairney and Michael Pedersen, both erudite, enthusiastic, informed and witty commentators and practitioners in their own fields and beyond. Getting the perfect hosts is half the battle in producing a successful awards ceremony and we can't wait to see Gemma and Michael helping us celebrate all our winners and nominees.
Scotsman
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Michael Pedersen and Gemma Cairney to host The List Festival Awards 2025
Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen and broadcaster and producer Gemma Cairney will host The List Festival Awards 2025, following a highly successful inaugural ceremony in 2024. The art and culture publication's second annual Festival Awards will return to the stunning Johnnie Walker Princes Street's Label Studio to shine a light on the rich array of art, book, film, fringe and international festivals taking place in the city every summer. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Designed to cover the breadth of cultural offerings during the most exciting festival month of the arts calendar, The List will pay tribute to the artists who make this very special programme an actuality. The awards ceremony is in partnership with Johnnie Walker Princes Street. No stranger to awards ceremonies, prize-winning poet Michael Pedersen is the Writer In Residence at The University Of Edinburgh and was named the new Edinburgh Makar in 2024. His 2022 debut prose Boy Friends was a Sunday Times Critics' Choice and was shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction Book at Scotland's National Book Awards. Pedersen is also a recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and is the co-founder of the literary production house Neu! Reekie!. Broadcaster and writer Gemma Cairney is best known for her work with BBC Radio 6 Music, where she interviewed cultural icons like Tracey Emin, Kelley Deal, and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Currently based in Scotland, Cairney is on the board of the Jupiter Arland Foundation and has been the chair of Edinburgh Art Festival since 2022. Following the publication of her first book in 2017, Cairney is currently working on her second novel The Immortal Sisterhood which is due to be published next year. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The List Festival Awards aim to support both Scottish and international arts and talent across all festivals, with each of the 12 winners to receive a cash award of at least £500. Two of these winners will head to the SoHo Playhouse in New York to perform their show. The awards are hosted in partnership with Johnnie Walker Princes Street and additional award supporters include Set! Productions, Edinburgh Marriott Hotel, LNER, Ghost Light Theatre, Pure Life Plus, The Pitt, Data Thistle, Adelaide Fringe, SoHo Playhouse, and Sit Up Awards. Gemma Cairney The publication's 40th anniversary year will see the inclusion of four new awards to further spotlight the range of talent the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has to offer. The categories for The List Festival Awards 2025 are: ART - Best rising Scottish artist BOOKS - Best rising Scottish author FILM - Best Scottish film FRINGE – Dance FRINGE – Comedy FRINGE - Kids FRINGE - LGBTQIA+ FRINGE - International Fringe Encore Series Edinburgh Prize FRINGE - Sit-Up Award for best production with a social impact FRINGE - Best show from Adelaide FRINGE - Spirit Of The Fringe Award INTERNATIONAL - Best show With a year-round monthly magazine (weekly during the festival) and an extensive digital platform, The List publishes and distributes information on events and entertainment and is a must-read for finding out what's on. The List reviews approximately 400 shows across the summer festivals offering some of the most engaging and extensive content for audiences. Michael Pedersen
Scotsman
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Celebrating 40 years of The List: Festival Awards return to honour Edinburgh's creative spirit
As the beating heart of the world's arts calendar, Edinburgh is no stranger to acclaim. But in August 2025, the city will play host once more to an accolade with a distinctly Scottish voice: The List Festival Awards are set to return, shining a spotlight on the artists, ideas and innovation that define the Edinburgh Festivals. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Following the success of its inaugural ceremony in 2024, The List—Scotland's longest-standing guide to arts and culture—is doubling down in its 40th anniversary year. With four new categories, the 2025 awards aim to reflect the dazzling diversity of the festivals, and crucially, champion homegrown and international talent alike. Rooted in The List's mission since 1985—to connect audiences with culture across Scotland—the Festival Awards embody the pulse of the city in August. From theatre, literature and comedy to dance and children's programming, the awards celebrate not only artistic excellence but also the social and cultural conversations sparked on stages across the capital. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad New for 2025 is a suite of awards that sharpen the spotlight on often underrepresented genres and voices: Best Dance Show, Best Comedy Show, Best Kids Show, and a dedicated award for LGBTQIA+ Fringe artists. These join a robust selection of existing categories that highlight local brilliance, including Best Rising Scottish Artist and Best Scottish Film. The List Awards Last year's recipients reflected the vivid talent on offer: Flannery O'kafka: For Willy Love, Booker T: Blue Babies Do Whatever They Want, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands, and author K Patrick all took home well-earned honours. International categories, too, reinforce the Fringe's global reach, such as the SoHo Playhouse's International Fringe Encore Series and the Sit-Up Award for productions with social impact. Perhaps most fitting in 2024 was the Spirit of the Fringe Award going to Summerhall's Chief Executive, Sam Gough—an embodiment of the venue's commitment to diverse programming and community support. As always, the awards are about more than prestige: they're about recognising those who elevate the festival experience for everyone. Editor of The List, Brian Donaldson, captures the sentiment well: Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad "There are various ways in which critics and audiences can show appreciation for artistic endeavour, and lavishing prizes on people is one important way to do it. Our second year of Festival Awards will honour even more brilliant shows and artists, and we can't wait to get stuck into another season of amazing culture." As The List enters its fifth decade, it remains one of Scotland's most trusted cultural curators, with a monthly magazine (weekly during the festivals), a thriving digital platform, and an editorial voice that continues to help audiences 'get a life'—and celebrate it.
