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We have done 28 jobs in Newtown, 11 of them for businesses: office doors, locks, blinds and shelving, gutter cleans, paving and a shopfront made ready for tiling. Pakington Street, the private schools and two old mill sites set the pace for commercial work here.
Newtown’s commerce is the busy end of Pakington Street, a group of large private schools, offices along West Fyans and Bridge Streets, and old mill sites changing hands.
11 of our 28 Newtown jobs have been commercial. For facility managers we have swapped a door for a solid-core slab and re-used its hardware, adjusted locks, mounted meeting-room blinds, fixed shelving, hung whiteboards and cleared gutters on a heavily treed site. One office job needed a Working with Children check before we could start.
The Newtown end of Pakington Street has 153 addresses in the shopping zone, and only about 0.3 of its 5.2 hectares sits under a heritage overlay. In Newtown we have rendered a shopfront’s walls straight around the windows ready for tiling, and we have cut down and re-hung a door that had bound up after building movement.
The former Returned Sailors and Soldiers Woollen Mill at 403 Pakington Street sold to a Geelong developer for more than $32 million, with plans to keep the mill for shops, hospitality and offices. It is heritage-listed, with external paint controls. The old Union Flour Mill on Latrobe Boulevard was bought in 2023 to be split into tenancies for retail and dining.
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Carpentry for Newtown’s shops, offices, schools and mill tenancies.
Gutters, paving and repairs for asset and facility managers.
Doors, locks, shelving and building-movement fixes.
Pakington Street shops, offices and future mill tenancies.
Planned work for schools, childcare and offices.
Older shopfronts and heritage-listed mill buildings.
Sticking doors, worn hardware and timber windows.
Carpentry, plaster and paint on one order.
Or pass it on through your facility manager.
Any Working with Children or induction needs sorted before we start.
In writing, before anything starts.
Area cleaned and photos sent on completion.
Beyond our expectations, and it was great to work with people who could turn our ideas into something better than we imagined. Couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
Tanneries, wool scours and soap works once favoured Chilwell’s river frontages, and Rocky Point had the Albion and Union woollen mills, from 1869 and 1874. The Returned Soldiers and Sailors woollen mill followed in 1922.
Trams served the private schools and the Pakington Street shops until 1956. Those schools and shops are still at the heart of Newtown’s commercial life.
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