Napoleon Perdis takes Woollahra post office and Anna Thomas adds to Queen Street fashionistas
The Napoleon Perdis Makeup Academy has leased space on Queen Street, Woollahra.
It’s the former post office premises whose closure was shut down in controversial circumstances in early 2011 by Australia Post.
The space has been empty since then.
The Perdis lease is for 112 square metres of ground-floor space.
The rent has been struck at $156,000 a year with options through to 2019 typically with 4% annual rental increases.
The share of outgoings total 40%, which includes council rates, sewerage and water charges, land tax, garbage disposal and insurance. Perdis opened in first store in 1995 in nearby Oxford Street, Paddington and now has 72 concept stores and over 4,500 point-of-sale locations in Australia and New Zealand.
The latest tenant on Queen Street is Anna Thomas, one of Australia's newest luxury women's fashion labels hailing from Melbourne, taking space in the former Howell and Howell building. The prestige shopping precinct attracted subdued interest ever since June 2011 when Alasdair MacLeod and his wife, Prudence, bought the Howell and Howell antique premises fetched $4.25 million post auction through Richardson and Wrench agent Ben Vaughan in conjunction with Laing and Simmons agent John Knott.
Wholefoods House is set to swap sides of the road moving almost adjacent to the Woollahra Hotel. The landlord had been seeking $210,000 a year tenants for the former CBA premises/Gary Castles premises on the Moncur Lane corner, but its not known what rent leasing agent Ben Vaughan secured.
Pauline Goodyer from GoodyerDonnelley Real Estate has listed the retail premises of fashion designer Lisa Ho and her husband, fashion fabric importer Philip Smouha. The three-storey building on Queen Street has operated as a hotel, a newspaper distribution company and a bookshop, and then trading as G.L. Auchinachie and Son Antiques until ins 2004 sale.
The 400-square-metre retail site premises is a 1905 building with rear lane access. It cost $4.5 million in 2004.
Offers are due by April 14.
Woollahra's Queen Street is fast becoming fashion central as its Dickensian antique dealers depart.
Martyn Cook, the street's most ubiquitous antique dealer, and the interior decorator Thomas Hamel, relocated last year to an 1891 heritage building, the Redfern Electric Light Station, with 1,042 square metres of space.
