ARK Group is selling seven venues to Australian Venue Co, including The Peach Pit, while Colonial Leisure Group has entered a deal to swap two of its assets for Melbourne-based pubs.
Publicans and restaurateurs have spent more than $5 million on a string of refurbishments and new developments in the flourishing precinct around Scarborough.
A vintage cash register, sepia-stained photos and assorted drapes of corn and chilli line the walls of the city's newest venue, Market Grounds, a pub that seeks to reflect its roots as occupant of the site where Perth's early marketplace was established in the 1850s.
