Work to restore one of Bendigo’s historic structures is underway.
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The Beehive building, originally used as the Bendigo Mining Exchange, will be gutted, refurbished and reopened as a hospitality and function space.
Owner Pall Mall Nominees, who bought the site from Bendigo council in 2015, hopes to reopen the building in April 2019.
Pall Mall Nominees director Graham McMahon said the ‘strip back’ work would take two months, and the renovation part of the project is expected to take a further five, before it’s handed over to a lessee who would fit out the area.
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Plans include reopening Allan’s Walk between Hargreaves Mall and Pall Mall, creating a number of function spaces on the first floor, and having an open space on the ground floor which could be used by an anchor tenant in the hospitality industry.
That tenant is close to being signed, according to Mr McMahon.
Melbourne-based builder DBG, which has completed projects for the National Gallery of Victoria and the Windermere Hotel, Kangaroo Flat, will renovate the building.
Works to upgrade the building’s facade will be completed at a later date, he said.
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