Our Top 3 Projects in Albany
The Great Southern Region has consistently earned a reputation for building excellence with Realforce Property primarily known for our contributions to the growth of Albany’s medical and hospitality industries.
To welcome the brand new year, we look back at some of our most remarkable projects that truly elevated the lives of the local community.
Great Southern Health Precinct
Did you know that the Great Southern Health Precinct (GSHP) is the first line of private investment into private health in the Great Southern Region?
Stage 1 of this project consists of the Great Southern Specialist Centre (opened July 2018) and Albany Day Hospital (opened May 2019). Both are the first of their own kind in the region, complementing and supporting each other to make top-notch healthcare services more accessible to the local community. This significantly decreased health-related travels.
Last year, we worked with a group of investors and the management of the Great Southern Specialist Centre to expand the centre’s facilities, adding another building to the GSHP on Cockburn Road that will serve as a new wing to the specialist centre. This year, we are building a fourth building on the GSHP site that will house complementary allied health services. This is set to not only meet current demand but also to accommodate the maturing population of the region.
Due South Tavern
Tourism and hospitality are the key industries that contribute to the Great Southern Region’s economy with recorded sales of $216.8m in 2020.
A few years ago, we had the opportunity to build Albany’s largest food and beverage venue with a maximum capacity of 600. Realforce worked hand-in-hand with all the key stakeholders to deliver the $4.8M Due South Tavern on-time, on-budget, and on-point by capitalising on our significant hospitality background, robust business practises and strategies, and effective communication skills. We are truly humbled and proud that several award-giving bodies recognised the quality of our work in this project.
Located on Princess Royal Harbour, and alongside Albany’s Premier $70 million Entertainment Centre, Due South Tavern now serves as a landmark within the Albany Tourism Hotspot and provides a remarkable setting for fun and good times for locals and tourists.
Premier Hotel
As one of Albany’s most iconic entertainment venues, restoring the 129-year old building after being almost razed to the ground from fire in 2016 has been one of our most challenging yet rewarding projects to date.
With the building in poor conditions, having had only minor and remedial maintenance done over the last 15 years, this project drew on our expertise and previous experience in restoring heritage buildings, enabling us to deliver this $4M restoration project within three years, amid COVID-19.
Our team worked collaboratively with Architect Julie De Jong of H+H Architect, who specialises in the design for restoration of historical buildings, to strike the right balance between heritage and contemporary elements whilst shifting the building’s primary function from a hotel to a tavern with a bottle shop.
The Premier Hotel has regained its former glory as one of Albany’s historical landmarks, it has been operating as a bar and restaurant for several months now, bringing a new vibrancy to the Albany town centre.
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