Henderson Hat News Today

Developer Hanave is going ahead with plans to build a $42-million boutique hotel at the Henderson Hat factory site in Surry Hills, Sydney.

Arson squad detectives have charged two 13-year-old boys over a suspicious multi-storey building inferno that caused chaos in Sydney's CBD.

The more-than-a-century-old former hat factory was gutted by fire just after 4pm on Thursday.

Transport was suspended and nearby residents evacuated after a building went up in flames on Thursday.

Those dreams were reduced to a smouldering pile of rubble by Friday, as firefighters extinguished the final flames and police investigating the blaze as suspected arson questioned two teenagers.

Vision inside the Laithwaites Australia office opposite the heritage-listed building that caught fire in Surry Hills in Sydneys CBD was captured by Fire Rescue NSW on Friday.

A family's dream for a $38 million hotel in Sydney's Surry Hills has been gutted in the raging inferno that toppled a historic building. Within an hour of

Fire crews worked throughout the night to mop up a blaze that destroyed a seven-storey heritage building in Sydney's inner city.

A group of high school students were seen running from a building moments before it went up in flames, a witness has claimed.

The seven-storey heritage-listed building that was reduced to rubble by a horror fire in Sydney on Thursday was about to be transformed into an upmarket hotel in a project set to cost $40million.