Billionaire James Packer backing development of Leo’s supermarket site
Lo We don’t want to make any changes, Lo Lo Giudice said, but refused to tell Leo’s doors after closing the doors.
When asked if any apartment is planned, we are, ız We are investors and we bought it as a passive investment to keep it as an investment ownership. Full stop. ” He said.
Leo stores, the family’s business, Le Max Group, on Wednesday, sold both properties and at the end of 2026 confirmed that the supermarkets will close.
Le Max Group still has the supermarket of Hartwell Leo in Glen Iris.
The property records show that Rose Blake, who founded Leo’s with the late husband Leo’s and Leo’s, is in 2 Summerhill Road, purchased for $ 2.66 million in 2006.
Le Max Group is still running the Maxi Foods supermarket in Ferntree Plaza in the upper Ferntree Gully, but it does not have a land. Ritchies rents this site to Metcash, which is Le Max.
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Ritchies Supermarkets property manager Mal Cameron said that Le Max, who has been traded in Fernre Gully since 1994, was expected to operate there despite Ritchies buying property from the previous host’s family.
Rose and Leo’s son, Brendan Blake, said he was upset about the sale of Kew and Heidelberg Properties. “The legacy of Leo’s stores is quite great,” he said.
Brendan, who runs his own supermarkets in Castlemaine, Daylesford and Ballarat, is not connected to Melbourne stores, said his father, “He’s always looking for innovative, always looking for new ideas and seeing what other people are doing”.
“The Kew store is a representation of what is different from chain stores,” he said.
Brendan said that Blakes had bought Heidelberg property in the mid -1990s. The Kew site, which was purchased and sold in the mid -1980s, contains parking, supermarket, adjacent store and houses on the nearby streets. Brend this is a big soil parcel, Brendan said Brendan.
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