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The Deal - Michael Grassi - How Podia put its foot on a Byron backpackers and created an iconic hotel-apartment project...
I’m talking with Michael Grassi, development director for Sydney-based property firm, Podia.
We’re exploring Podia’s hotel-apartment development in Byron Bay known as The Bonobo by Raes.
Located on Byron’s iconic Jonson Street, the Podia approach to developing this site is, well, quite unique.
In this episode, Michael and I explore everything from acquiring the former backpackers site during the middle of Covid, dealing with a traditionally-hostile local community, engaging an award-winning design team to procuring a builder during a construction crisis and selling a once-in-a-generation…
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