Jenelle Carter

The City of Fremantle plans to transform the port city by redeveloping the tired east end and revitalising Kings Square and the adjacent Myer building in a move it’s hoped will create an exciting retail mix to rival Garden City.

Australia Post has approved plans to commence redeveloping the National Trust-listed Perth GPO premises in Forrest Place which has housed the Western Australian postal headquarters since 1916.

Stretch marks are the bane of all women unlucky enough to develop them, but Fariba Fanaian has turned hers into a successful enterprise, marketing the natural stretch mark oil her mother and grandmother specially formulated for her, through the family bus

Western Australia’s Wheatbelt could have its own $6 million convention and exhibition centre if the Dowerin Machinery Field Days board has its way.

For some professional women in Perth, motherhood has been the catalyst for them to start their own businesses.

Perth restaurateurs Sid Grewal and Murray Kimber are making curry in a hurry with their latest restaurant, Mela, opening on William Street in Northbridge just six months after the launch of the Cinnamon Club, their contemporary Indian noshery in Leedervil

Industrial sales agents are tipping Bayswater and Bassandean as the next areas to attract major investment, as land and infrastructure within 15 kilometres of the city becomes increasingly scarce.

A design showcase from Western Australia has just returned from Italy after a successful exhibition of locally designed contemporary furniture, lighting and products at Milan’s prestigious Salone Satellite design fair.

Building approvals in Western Australia were down 21 per cent in February 2006 to 2,095, according to figures from the Department of Treasury and Finance.