Published April 27, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. After spending the last 25ish years building a pub empire in Sydney and surrounds, hospitality titan Justin Hemmes is expanding south. It’s happening, he’s gotten himself a property in Melbourne, and the tendrils of Merivale are creeping across the southern border. Hemmes, who now has a catalogue of around 70 pubs, venues, and establishments in Sydney, has gone and picked himself up his first venue in Melbourne – and first spot outside of Sydney – for the next phase of his total domination of the Aussie hospo industry.