Wayne Carey's Former Redback Brewery, North Melbourne, to be Redeveloped Into Student Accommodation Tower

A North Melbourne property once part-owned by Kangaroos footballer Wayne Carey, is to be replaced with a nine-level student accommodation complex.
 
Early next year, Flemington Road’s Redback Brewery Hotel will be demolished and the site redeveloped as a 240 unit complex.
 
Redback’s profits have dwindled since council’s decision to remove poker machines some years ago, and well after Carey sold his interest.

Attempts to sell the Redback as a medical suite development site were considered in about 2007, before a residential proposal was lodged with council late last year.
 
Castran Gilbert’s Mark Forytarz said the apartments – which are typically much smaller than a standard one-bedroom apartment - start from $159,500.
 
In March 2000, a pane of glass fell from a second level window of the outgoing Redback Brewery Hotel building, gashing the mouth, right cheek and neck of Carey’s former team mate and friend Anthony Stevens, who was standing on the footpath below. Stevens is reported to have lost two litres of blood.
 
Wayne Carey is currently seeking $3 million from the sale of a new Broadbeach Waters mansion, in Queensland, which was reportedly the scene of the riotous break-up between Wayne, and his then-fiancé, Kate Neilson, in September.