St Mary’ s Band Club has undergone a stunning renovation, transforming the main trading floor of the club into a contemporary, open and light filled space.
The project began back in 2005 when St Mary’ s Band Club acquired the adjacent bowling club. Nine years later in 2014 after an extensive strategic planning process, the Club discovered that selling the land to a developer could unlock the potential for the club’ s main premises.
After undergoing re-zoning, the sale of the adjacent land enabled the club to pay down debt and finance the refurbishment project. With no renovations carried out at the club since 2009, it was a major project. The board and management identified the main trading floor as a priority, with the revamp to include revitalising the food and beverage offering. It was important that the project needed to provide improved amenities for the Club’ s existing members as well as attracting new patrons from the growing young family demographic.
The final touches are just being made to the project as we go to press which now boasts two new spacious entrances, a new alfresco terrace, a new central café and refurbished bars, a stylish waging facility and sports lounge, a family friendly indoor / outdoor dining precinct and a refurbished members lounge. Adjacent to the new‘ Family Table’ dining space is a dedicated children’ s play area called‘ The Yard’ which also boosts a stateof-the-art parent room. The Clubs parking area has also been significantly increased with an upper deck added to the car park.
Club CEO Marlene Shipley said the renovations were designed to attract a wider demographic and were firmly focused on being family-friendly.“ The facilities are suited to being a venue for mums and bubs, which then hopefully transforms to an exciting dining and entertainment venue for when they have a babysitter and can enjoy a local night out in a great atmosphere.” The St Mary’ s Band Club hopes the renovations will be the start of a new phase of hospitality for the community. With development of the new high rise residential site next door due for completion in just over 12 months, the sparkling new club facilities will come into their own.
Project Cost: $ 5.2 million Construction: FAL Construction Group Architect / Designer: GROUPN Architecture Interior Landscape
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