The chic industrial warehouse in Newtown that housed innovative Mexican fusion restaurant Comedor is on the market three months after the venue abruptly closed following controversy between the owner and staff. Located in the 100-year-old former headquarters of the Colonial Textile Manufacturing Company, the Mexican eatery opened with a splash in July 2024 with head chef Alejandro Huerta running the kitchen. It was commended in the best restaurant design category at the 2024 Eat Drink Design Awards.
A month later it received one hat in the 2024 Good Food Australia Awards. But according to claims raised in this masthead, , who strenuously denied the allegations levelled against him. The property was refurbished just before Comedor opened and the restaurant, before it closed, was on track to book $4 million in annual revenue, with future sales projected at $7 million.
The property is being sold on an “as is, where is” basis through Colliers’ James Cowen and Jack McGregor. The agents said the client has a cost base of $6.5 million and “is ready to sell.
” The big guns of the retail world gathered in Sydney on Friday for the annual awards, known as the Big Guns 2025 Vicinity Centre’s Chadstone again took out the big gong for with top level of yearly sales at $2.5 billion. The awards rank and detail moving annual turnovers – an industry metric that calculates total sales – for 86 major Australian shopping centres during 2024.
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