Brisbane’s inner west opens its doors to its newest gin and vodka distillery, casual bar, and kitchen — Warehouse 25 in Milton.
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Perched between XXXX brewery and Suncorp Stadium, Warehouse 25 is every gin and vodka lover’s haven. The 436sqm venue boasts of 100 litre vodka still and a 50 litre gin still for both indoor and outdoor dining.
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Apart from the classic cocktails, Warehouse 25 will feature its signature spirits such as Lavender Martini, Ginger & Rhubarb Spritz, Spiced Iced Tea, and Grapefruit and Rosemary Sour.
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Warehouse 25 will also be bottling and selling their very own spirits under the Calm Spirits Co label. The spirits are infused with calming botanical extracts including juniper, lavender, rose and lemon. A number of Australian wines are also on offer, by the glass for $9 and by the bottle for $40 whilst the distillery’s cocktails will be $16 each.
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Being the former home to secret underground electronica parties, the venue’s indoor/outdoor split-level area is keeping its musical roots alive with the mezzanine level offering guests plenty of dancefloor space to party the night away whilst the basement area is an ideal spot for exhibitions, product launches, and other special events.
Meanwhile, the kitchen serves up red- and white-based pizzas including margherita (sugo, fior di latte and fresh basil); capricciosa (sugo, mozzarella, olives, artichoke, mushroom and ham); pistachio and pumpkin; and quattro formaggi (ricotta, fior di latte, gorgonzola, and mozzarella). There is also a variety of snack and share plates caprese (tomato, basil, and fior di latte), pumpkin and pistachio insalada (rocket salad with roast pumpkin, toasted pistachio, and red onion), burnt broccoli (charred florets with toasted almonds and lime), warm olives, chips, and arancini (mushroom arancini balls with capsicum and fennel salsa)
Warehouse 25 gin and vodka distillery, bar and restaurantis located at 25 Finchley Street, Milton. They are open Monday to Wednesday from 11a.m.–2p.m., Thursday 11a.m.–10p.m., Friday to Sunday 11a.m.–1a.m.
The $3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf transformation will reportedly include a premier event centre and sports bar that will become the ultimate party venue in the city.
Plans are underway for the QWB Sports Bar to host events featuring the best sports games in the world, such as the FL, NRL and English Premier League soccer, FIFA, Super Bowl, World Cup and every major tennis championship.
In this upcoming leisure space, guests may enjoy the sights, sounds, as well as the bar food and drinks, as if they are in an actual stadium. If sports fans in Brisbane can’t attend the events in person, then being at the QWB Sports Bar would be their next best option.
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The Star Entertainment Group head Matt Bekier is excited for what would be a 24/7 bar once construction is finished. The QWB Sports Bar will feature 50 LCD screens and a centrepiece 34 sqm LED screen.
Elevating the experience for every sports fan in Brisbane, this new bar is expected to open sometime in late 2022.
The Queen’s Wharf lifestyle precinct has been carefully planned to transform Brisbane CBD into the ultimate hub for entertainment, leisure and attractions. Spanning 26 hectares, this area is expected to generate an additional 1.39 million tourists, who will enjoy a variety of dining, retail and cultural spaces just as much as the locals.
If you’re in Milton and you fancy a scenic, historic walk to get some exercise without venturing too far from home, the Petrie Terrace Heritage Trail takes you through the historic portion of this neighbouring inner-city suburb. A 2.7 kilometre trail just a short distance from Milton Rd, it has 18 points of interest, the Petrie Terrace Heritage Trail may take a two-hour walk to explore.
First Stops on Caxton Street
Start your journey on Lang Park, formerly the North Brisbane Burial Ground. The burial ground, also known as the Paddington Cemetery was in use from 1843 to 1875, during which time up to 10,000 people may have been buried.
By 1910 the cemetery fell into disrepair and it was proposed the grounds be turned into a recreation reserve. When the Paddington Cemetery Act was passed a year later, the government relocated the remains to another cemetery.
The creation of a parkland began in 1914. It was named Lang Park in honour of John Dunmore Lang’s contribution to the Brisbane area. Fast-forward to present day, the burial ground is now part of Suncorp Stadium.
Walk further to Caxton Street and visit the Ithaca Playground, now called the Neal Macrossan Playground. The Playground Association of Queensland established the playground in 1918 to provide recreational and educational facilities in disadvantaged areas.
Turn to Wellington Street and you will see Stombuco’s terrace houses, the fine examples of Brisbane’s 19th-century terrace houses. The terraces were designed by Andrea Stombuco, who also designed some of Brisbane’s most beautiful buildings like the “Rhyndarra” in Yeronga and All Hallows Convent School in Fortitude Valley.
Crossing Musgrave Road
Before heading to Petrie Terrace, you will find the Normanby Hotel,
one of the city’s landmarks. The heritage-listed hotel demonstrates an
early Brisbane use of Queen Anne stylistic elements in commercial
design.
A four-minute walk from the hotel will take you to a ridge along Petrie Terrace that used to be an important place for many Aboriginal people. The Ipswich, Rosewood, and Wivenhoe tribes camped in the vicinity until the Europeans settled and developed the inner-city suburb.
Stroll Countess Street then turn left to Princess Street and you will find the Hardgrave Park. Named after Petrie Terrace resident and local politician John Hardgrave, the 1.08ha park is the earliest gazetted park reserve in Brisbane.
More on Petrie Terrace
Explore Petrie Terrace and you will soon end up at Princess Row where
you will see some of the oldest surviving terrace houses in Brisbane.
Head south and you will reach the “Shawn” Flats, characterized by Old
English and Mediterranean sets of flats built in 1936 for widow Margaret
Murphy.
Walk down Cricket Street and you will reach the Petrie Terrace gullies. In the 19th Century, parts of it experienced overcrowded conditions. It was believed that the base of the hill’s close proximity to the cemetery contributed to the locals’ unhealthy conditions. The closure of the cemetery at the bottom of the hill and the establishment of a new cemetery in Toowong addressed the community’s concern.
Head west Toward Menzies Street and you will see an example of Petrie Terrace modest timber cottages. The cottages along the street were built on small proportions of land, a reflection of the crowded conditions on the hill in the lates 1800s.
Go northeast and you will reach Victoria Barracks. This has been an important military facility since the 1860s. A minute walk leads to the Brisbane Gaol that used to be the site of Queensland’s second purpose-built prison before the establishment of the police barracks.
The southwest part will bring you to The Prince Alfred Hotel, named in the honour of Queen Victoria’s son, Alfred. It is currently owned by a private company and now known as The Lord Alfred Hotel.
Toward Weetman Street awaits the Oddfellows Wall built in 1891. It is now Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, a popular Brisbane night spot. The next trail, located in the Street Side Bar reminds of the groups of “larrikin” or the teenage male delinquents who caused havoc in Petrie Terrace in the late 19th Century.
Turn right onto Sheriff Street then turn left onto Hale Street, where you will find the La Boite Theatre. It was Australia’s first purpose-built arena theatre. In 2001, La Boite moved to a venue in Kelvin Grove. The Petrie Terrace theatre has been sensitively converted into offices.
Explore Sexton Street and you will reach the second to the last stop, the Jackson & Co’s Granary. In 1947, a terrible tragedy took place on this site. The use of carbon disulphide in an enclosed building caused a massive explosion and killed four people.
About 500 metres from the Jackson & Co’s Granary takes you to the last point of interest of the Petrie Terrace Heritage Trail. The Police Barracks back in the 1930s is now more popular to the locals as The Barracks, a landmark retail and commercial precinct.
Whilst some of the points of interests are private properties,
walking through this trail lets you discover the rich history of Petrie
Terrace.
The ginger and tourism assets of the Buderim Group, with its corporate offices in Milton, will be sold for $13 million to the Himstedt Family. The former owner of Queen Fine Foods outbids Global Foods Group’s $8.3 million offer last June.
The sale is expected to close in September, subject to regulatory approvals. Included in the deal are all of Buderim Group’s ginger brands: The Ginger Factory in Yandina, Ginger Head Quarters Pty Ltd, and Frespac Ginger (Fiji) Pte Ltd.
Buderim Group Chairman Guy Cowan said that the company is pleased to turn over its ginger assets to a “renowned family in the foods business.”
In 1978, the Himstedt family bought Queen Vanilla, Australia’s largest producer of baking aids, vanilla extracts and food colouring, and maintained its quality as a top-selling food brand in the supermarket in Australia and abroad. In 2015, Dr Oetker, a multinational German company acquired Queen Fine Foods from the Himstedt family with the sons holding key positions in the company.
Current workers and staff in the ginger division will be retained, including Buderim Ginger CEO Andrew Bond.
Meanwhile, the sale will enable Buderim Group to completely shift its focus to the macadamia business. Before selling the ginger assets, 60 percent of the company’s sales in recent years came from their macadamia brands, MacFarms and Royal Hawaiian Orchards. The company plans to tap health and plant-based markets following the sale’s completion.
A Milton start-up, which launched in 2017, is rapidly expanding amidst a boost in sales of its social distancing technology. OfficeMaps, founded by James Sowry and William Lee, is looking to hire more workers in the coming months to meet the demands of clients who want to keep their workspaces safe.
OfficeMaps chief experience officer Robert Wilkinson said that their software sales grew 2.5 times higher from March to June, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. They have been receiving heaps of inquiries from HR managers and workers, thus the need to hire more workers.
From a staff of five before the pandemic, the company has now grown with 12 workers. At least four more positions are expected to open in the next few months.
OfficeMaps provides a visual representation of the office space to help building administrators, HR and facilities managers, IT personnel, remote and agile workers easily find people and places within an interactive floor plan. It also helps with maximising use of shared floorspace or allocate desks or work areas to abide by social distancing measures.
In this COVID-19 new normal, OfficeMaps also introduced a new feature for contract tracing, which can be facilitated in a matter of minutes rather than going through the process manually. The software compiles a list of workers who were in the office at any given time.
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The software could also display occupancy statistics to ensure the safety of every worker in the building. It will notify the manager if the occupancy is nearing the threshold.
For remote workers, the OfficeMaps’ interactive tool may also inform of teleconferences facilities or if a team member or project manager is currently in the building.
The Milton start-up has raked 140,000 users around the world, with 50 percent of its subscribers in the U.S. The rest of its subscribers are from Australia and Europe.
Interested companies may book a demo from OfficeMaps to see if the interactive office map and visual directory will be able to help in your day-to-day operations.
Some big bright bunnies will be hopping into the Eagle Street Pier this March. If you frequent the precinct, don’t be startled by their giant presence. The installation will be around the area from the 13th to the 29th of March 2020.
All of those six illuminated giant bunnies are the work of Australian artist Amanda Parer. Brisbane is lucky to have the artwork for the very first time after Ms Parer and her hoppy creations have been bouncing off cities like London, Paris, Boston, Los Angeles, Seoul and Perth for years.
This is Ms Parer’s Intrude art display. The artist created those big and shiny bunnies to provoke “a thoughtful and playful atmosphere.”
Ms Parer picked bunnies as the subject of her art display of its intriguing contradictions. These animals are fixtures of fairytale stories, displaying furry innocence and a cute image loved by children.
However, rabbits were also regarded as out of control pests in Australia when these animals were introduced by the settlers in the late 1700s. From the 19th to the 20th century, various methods were deployed to control the rabbit population in the country as the animals were causing heaps of environmental problems, including soil erosion and an imbalance to Australia’s unique flora and fauna.
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“I expect people will be drawn to the rabbits’ playful appearance, and I hope they will also take the time to understand the deeper meaning in the work and discuss how our actions impact the natural world in which we all live,” Ms Parer said.
The illuminating giant bunnies will be on display for free daily at the Eagle Street Pier from 12:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Are you ready to “shave the world” from blood cancer? It’s time to take part in the World’s Greatest Shave and help Leukaemia Foundation reach their goal of zero lives lost to blood cancer by 2035.
You are invited to come along on 13 March, 2020 between 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. at King George Square as Leukaemia Foundation celebrates 22 years of World’s Greatest Shave.
To participate in this fund raising event, you may nominate to shave, cut or colour your hair by signing up and fundraise at https://worldsgreatestshave.com. You are encouraged to book online if you are planning to shave on the day of the event. You may sign up as an individual, join a team, or start your own team.
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For signing up, you will get a free kit containing tips and tools, plus your own online fundraising page ready for you to personalise. Shave, cut, colour, or even wax your hair, it’s up to you. You have the power to take a stand against blood cancer!
Blood cancer is one of the top 4 most frequently diagnosed cancers and one of the leading causes of death by cancer in Australia. Leukaemia Foundation has set a bold new goal: zero lives lost to blood cancer.
To achieve this goal and work towards fighting leukemia, Leukaemia Foundation commissioned a comprehensive and ‘first of its kind’ analysis to help identify the challenges and opportunities that influence survival and quality of life blood cancer patients.
The result is the State of the Nation: Blood Cancer in Australia report which includes the Foundation’s plan for action to reach their goal. To help coordinate the effort, Leukaemia Foundation will work in partnership with the government and the key participants in the blood cancer science and clinical community. The plan for actions will focus on four priorities: empower patients, enable access, catalyse health reform, and accelerate research for the cure.
“Ultimately the path to conquering blood cancer requires us to work together and ensure 100% access to the right information, the best treatments and services, and the latest trials, tests and diagnostic tools, to help people not just to survive – but also to live well,” Bill Petch, Leukaemia Foundation CEO said.
Visit the Leukaemia Foundation here to know more about “The path to zero lives lost to blood cancer.”
Two properties in Milton are included in the most significant sales in the past three months, the latest Brisbane Fringe Cityscope research said.
The latest Corelogic’s Brisbane Fringe Cityscope report revealed that property sales figures in the last three months to the beginning of February 2020 have increased with recorded sales totalling $216.5 million.
There was a total of over $189 million in significant sales this quarter including a property located at 19 Lang Parade, Milton. The site comprising two office buildings, with 31,567 sqm total gross floor area, was sold off-market for $85.2 million to Nikos Property Group Pty Ltd.
Included in the site is the Terrace Suites, a two-storey building built prior to 1990 and is situated behind the seven-storey building that was built in 2009, and extended by one floor in 2011. The property is situated in close proximity to transport: 400 metres to Auchenflower Train Station, 125 metres to Coronation Drive bus stop, and 150 metres to Milton Ferry Wharf.
Meanwhile, three buildings — comprising a 2,514 sqm two-level building, a 565 sqm workshop/warehouse, and 723 sqm workshop/warehouse — with frontages to Crombie Street, Cribb Street, and McDougall Street were sold together for $10.5 million.
Of the $216.5 million total sales from 15 properties, $194.7 million were for commercial, $3.8 million for commercial strata, $6.5 million for retail, $100,000 for retail strata, and $10.5 million for other.
Comparing that data to the last three months to the beginning of November 2019, there 17 sales recorded for a total of $55.5 million including 4.3 million for commercial, $3.7 million for commercial strata, $5 million for retail, $200,000 for retail strata and $42.4 million for other.
A wonderful “frenaissance” is happening in Brisbane, more than 25 years since “Friends” bowed out of television! The Brunch Club is mounting a “Friends”-themed brunch (of course!) at a still-undisclosed location in Brisbane this autumn.
The event, aptly named “The One Where They All Went For Brunch,” is going to run for one time only on Sunday, the 26th of April 2020. This early, however, you may already register to receive notifications, including when to score the tickets to this exclusive brunch party. Word on the street is that the venue will be a 10-minute drive off the CBD.
“The One Where They All Went For Brunch” will be a two-hour spectacle (12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.), where guests may enjoy playing “Friends”-themed charades and trivia. Be sure to tap a friend who’s really good at Lightning Rounds for a sure win!
Guests may also win prizes for the “Friends” costume competition. If you come dressed up as the Holiday Armadillo, you’re good to go!
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The brunch will also feature a screening of select “Friends” episodes. Ross’s favourite moist maker sandwiches could be on the menu along with heaps of appetizers and bottomless drinks.
This is strictly an 18-year-old-and-above event. “The One Where They All Went For Brunch” is also going to be taking place in Sydney and Melbourne before it comes to Brisbane.
Council has approved a development application for a Whiskey Distillery and Hotel within an existing building located at 25 Finchley Street, Milton.
The subject site is located in the Brewery precinct of the Ithaca District neighbourhood plan/NPP-005, therefore, the proposed Whiskey Distillery use is deemed consistent with the existing uses already established within the locality such as the adjoining XXXX Brewery.
The Hotel component of the proposal, on the other hand, is considered “compatible with the surrounding low impact industrial uses.” The proposed hours of operation of the Hotel is 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m., 7 days a week.
“The proposal involves the refurbishment of the existing commercial/industrial building to create an attractive contemporary commercial building designed to accommodate the proposed Hotel and Distillery. It is anticipated that the proposal will add positively to the built form character of the locality and provide an attractive contemporary building to Finchley Street at this location,” the Planning Initiatives Assessment Report said.
The approved development application will involve the refurbishment of the existing commercial/industrial building, with a total Gross Floor Area of 521.6sqm, to accommodate the proposed use.
Basement floor plan Photo credit: Brisbane City Council / pdonline.brisbane.qld.gov.au Ground Floor plan Photo credit: Brisbane City Council / pdonline.brisbane.qld.gov.auFirst Floor plan Photo credit: Brisbane City Council / pdonline.brisbane.qld.gov.au
It is proposed that the Whiskey Distillery will occupy an area of 13.5sqm on the ground floor, at the rear area of the building, with the basement area and a portion of the ground floor, with an area of 135.6sqm, to be used for bonded storage.
The Whiskey Distillery is expected to produce approximately 10,000 litres of distilled product annually but will not exceed 1 million litres per annum
The Hotel component of the development will include the 22sqm bar area and 82sqm function space on the ground level of the building with the remainder of the ground level space apportioned to the kitchen (12.2sqm) and amenities area (22.8sqm).
It is proposed that the existing building will retain its existing ancillary office, storage, and amenities on the upper level. Under the proposal, the existing to car parking spaces at the site is not intended to be altered.
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