We are beyond excited to secure the Geurie car yard - next door to the gallery & Café courtyard.

This property is called 57-59 Buckenbah Street, Geurie NSW.

We are currently in the design/planning stage with planners to revitalise our small part of the streetscape of Geurie’s main street.

We spent 2025 obtaining high level planning advice for the site known as “The Geurie Car Yard” and we are able to undertake (with certain conditions) a development which will transform this part of Geurie’s main street.

The vision

We can see a building which creates a terrace of shops on the ground floor, and apartment living on the first floor will enable the RU5 ‘Village Zone’ to really come to life.

The range of businesses or uses for each shop is genuinely unlimited (subject to DA) but we can confidently confirm the following would be permitted:

• Hair Salon

• Beautician

• Massage Therapy

• Alternative Health Therapies

• Allied health services, including Occupational Therapy, Physio, Dietician, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Podiatry, Audiology, Social Work, Exercise Physiology etc

• Pharmacy

• General retail shops

• Offices

Food in Geurie is sorted!

We will not be constructing a shop which can offer cooking or hospitality - mostly as the Lemon Tree Cafe Geurie next door is well placed to be the main street cafe for Geurie. Down the street is the takeaway offered via the Geurie General Store. The mighty Mitchell Inn cooks up pub classics. Sunny’s wife cooks great Curry in a Hurry options at the Geurie Servo. Jessie and John’s Succulent Chinese at the Geurie Bowlo, covers off on any other kind of takeaway needed. 

Our early stage plans are to construct 4 or 5 terraces of shops, each with a shop-top apartment.

Legal title for each shop will be strata title. This means you own your individual shop (ie the internal cubic space) but share ownership and responsibility for the "common property" with other lot owners through an owners' corporation (also known as a body corporate).

Common Property includes the building's external walls, roof, foundations, shared pathways, car-parking and other common amenities.

Each shop and apartment will have their own toilet and kitchen facilities.

The owners' corporation is responsible for the maintenance, repair, and management of these shared areas, funded by regular strata levies paid by each owner.

Each shop will also own the residential apartment above the shop. This enables the business owner to either live on the premises, or facilitate a FIFO residence (commonplace for rural healthcare delivery), or to enable the owner additional rental income from the upstairs apartment.

Buckenbah Collective Pty Ltd plans to sell each of combined shop and apartment, but aims to retain ownership of the part closes to the adjoining Art Gallery/Cafe building.

Our vision is to create a tailored, commercial and mixed-use development in a village setting.

Professional in feel, quality to touch, and continuing the pride and ownership Geurie locals have of their village - the proposed building of shops and apartments will return the main street of Geurie to its bygone era.

Mixed use development is at the core of the RU5 Village zoning. 

Geurie is well placed for businesses seeking to:

> capture early birds driving to work

> capture those catching the last flight back from Sydney, before they head back to Wellington or their farm

> carve out an opportunity which enables the business owner to live regionally, but post their product or offer their service throughout Australia (or the World)!

Maximising the potential and opportunities of highway frontage on the main road from Dubbo to Sydney (and from Sydney to Bourke).

This development will compliment the existing local village businesses and increase the profile of Geurie over time. 

Take a glimpse (above & below) at a hand drawing by Rhonda Osborn, an ‘artists impression’ of what is possible.

When will this happen?

We will lease the site to a tenant until 2028 and then commence development once the lease concludes.

To discuss the longer-term plans we have for the site, please get in touch. 

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