Bookseller Charlotte MacKenzie buys onto Queen Street, Woollahra from Lisa Ho
The fashion designer Lisa Ho and ragtrader Philip Smouha have sold their 380-square-metre retail premises in Queen Street, Woollahra for $3.9 million to a company called Flocolo 1 Pty Ltd, whose shareholder is Charlotte MacKenzie, the bookseller wife of Adrian MacKenzie, the private equity entreprenuer.
The three-storey 1905 building (pictured above) with rear lane access has three separate lease spaces.
Pauline Goodyer from GoodyerDonnelley Real Estate persisted on the listing having initially offered it in 2007 with $6 million-plus hopes.
The 222-square-metre holding cost $4.5 million in 2004.
Featuring a handsome façade and impressively proportioned rooms with soaring patterned ceilings and superb period details, it spans three levels as well as a basement.
Lisa Ho had the ground floor retail outlet and the second floor hairdressing salon had been empty.
The queen of Australian fashion Collette Dinnigan gave Woollahra's burgeoning fashion precinct a fillip since the opening of her store on the Queen Street retail strip in 2011.
The former Random House publishing production manager Charlotte MacKenzie opened her Double Bay bookshop, Oscar & Friends in 2006 and more recently in Crown Street, Surry Hills.
