The McCloy Group has been involved in property development projects in the Hunter Valley for more than 50 years, with over 3,000 home sites and some 50,000m²+ of quality commercial space. The Group has also built and operated a shopping centre, hotels, an aluminium window manufacturing business and liquor stores.
Orchid Grove
This boutique development of just twenty three lots is located in the Lake Macquarie suburb of Mt Hutton. Its name is reflective of the previous use of the land which was originally an orchid farm.
The subdivision is planted with mature street trees and the lots have valley views over a rural setting. The McCloy Group constructed quality ‘desert stone’ finish retaining walls per lot, ensuring slab-able house construction and enhanced visual appeal.
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Jewells Tavern
For many years McCloy Group owned and successfully ran Jewells Tavern as a well-known family restaurant and bar. Situated next door to Jewellstown Plaza on Ntaba Road, McCloy Group created a place for people to come for a great meal, catch up for a drink and gather with family and friends.
Mattara Hotel
Situated in the centre of Charlestown, Newcastle, The Mattara Hotel was bought and redeveloped by the McCloy Group in 2002. The Group transformed the Hotel into a trendy restaurant and bar which included stylish function rooms, and featured large fish tanks holding exotic reef fish.
Green Point Gardens
Situated at Valentine is a completed residential subdivision that was developed under community title. Using this title, the McCloy Group was able to create a unique community enclave which featured several community parks. The subdivision also incorporates half court basketball courts, playground equipment, walking paths and barbeque areas. The Estate proved to be a resounding success for the company.
Foreshore Park Apartments
In a joint venture with two other partners, McCloy Group developed Foreshore Park Apartments – a 16 unit apartment building in the trendy East End of Newcastle. The basement plus three level building was carefully designed to produce a modern building that is appropriate to the heritage setting of the East End.
Sail Point Apartments
In a joint venture, McCloy’s constructed the Sail Point Apartments which is a twenty six unit development situated on the shores of Lake Macquarie, Belmont.
Carefully designed to take full advantage of the lake views despite the westerly aspect, Sail Point Apartment pioneered the re-development of lakeside Belmont, and re-sales since completion in 1999 have demonstrated strong capital growth.
John Hunter Hospital
The hospital was by far the company’s biggest building project. It commenced construction in 1987 and was finished in 1990 - one year ahead of the contract time, despite some $7 million worth of damage in the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake.
With 600 men working on the building at its peak the project taxed the capacity of the Newcastle building industry. Despite the size of the building and the speed of construction, the project was built to a high standard, winning in 1990 the NSW MBA Excellence in Building Award for projects in the category of Public Buildings $20 million and over. It also won the overall ‘Outstanding Workmanship Award’ over entrants in all categories.
The company has also made extensions to a variety of schools, home units and aged care facilities over the years. These include:
- St Pius School, Adamstown
- St Francis Xavier, Hamilton
- Lakes Anglican Grammar School
- Newcastle Grammar School
- Jewellstown Medium Density Housing
- Mossman Place, Raymond Terrace Medium Density Housing
- Queens Court, Warners Bay Medium Density Housing
- Hillside Retirement Village, Mt Hutton
- CA Brown Retirement Village, Teralba
- Frank Whiddon Units, Redhead
- Ex-services Centre Retirement units, Bolton Point
- Mult-cultural Retirement Village, Waratah
The McCloy group is also renowned for its charitable works and sponsorships including significant involvement with the Salvation Army and large contributions to Redhead Surf Lifesaving Club.
Buildings that the company have produced for charities at cost or below also include the Hunter Life Education Centre, Ronald McDonald House (John Hunter Campus), Housing - Spastic Centre of NSW (Wallsend), Hydrotherapy Pool, Orthopaedic School (Waratah).
Other building projects include the development of the Hunter Region Mail Centre at Warabrook, The Toronto Private Hospital (Stage 1) and many major projects at Wests Leagues Club, Newcastle.