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 inject love into 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.

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

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 and down the street is the takeaway offered via the Geurie General Store. The mighty Mitchell Inn cooks up pub classics & Jessie and John’s Succulent Chinese at the Geurie Bowlo covers off on any other kind of takeaway needed. Food in Geurie is sorted!

Our early stage plans are to construct 3 or 4 terraces of shops&apartments, each with a common wall.

The legal title for each shop will be strata title, which means you own your individual shop lot (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).

The 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 own the residential apartment above the shop. This enables the business to have the business owner live up top, facilitate a FIFO residence (commonplace for rural healthcare delivery), or to enable the business owner additional rental income from the apartment upstairs.

Buckenbah Collective plan to sell each of the shops/apartments, but will aim to retain ownership of the space which could be called a “health hub” which has multiple offices with a shared reception area. There is a demand for a space which allied health professionals can use in a ‘chambers style’ arrangement.

Our vision is to create a tailored, commercial offering in a village setting.

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

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

This development will generate local employment opportunities, through commerce as a primary driving force. Business people continue to seek a low overhead space to base their business, that can flex with the economy.

Geurie is well placed to businesses seeking to:

> capture those 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 have had a HUGE four years since we started this project in early 2022. We were hoping to commence development in 2026, but we have decided to lease the site in the short-term (ie 2026-2027-2028?) and then commence development once the lease concludes.

Leasing the car-yard site enables us to get various things like the consolidation/subdivision of the title finalised, drainage, other planning requirements to be approved and the development / construction team to be assembled. We will be looking for a project manager to manage this project for us.   

We are open to signing ‘off-the-plan’ paperwork, if anyone is keen to secure the ownership of a shop&apartment.

However, we have designed our bank facility to fund the development to enable the construction to take place and then list each shop&apartment for sale once construction has been finalised.

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

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