Indigenous food experience for Freo
Gather Hospitality Group is set to become a new tenant on the Victoria Quay waterfront precinct in Fremantle, WA, offering an indigenous food and art experience.
A Fremantle Ports tender sought to further activate the precinct by repurposing a portion of one of the 1950s heritage industrial workshops into a successful waterfront and world-class entertainment tourism destination.
Gather, an established local Aboriginal-owned native food manufacturing and event experience company, will introduce Australia’s first Aboriginal immersive food and art experience.
Near Maritime Museum
The precinct will incorporate a café, specialist retail, Aboriginal art and literature corner, event space and a world-first permanent state-of-the-art immersive art experience that will bring 60,000 years of ancient knowledge and culture to life through advanced digital technology displays.
Gather will occupy approximately 1,125 square metres of the total workshop buildings, adjacent to Workshop Lane and near the Maritime Museum.
The workshop’s heritage-listed architecture will be fully retained and enhanced under the design leadership of Noongar interior design business Leah Paige Designs.
Cultural significance
Heritage and Creative Industries Minister Simone McGurk said Gather would bring an exciting new dimension to Victoria Quay, showcasing for visitors the deep historical and cultural significance of Walyalup.
“Heritage architect input would be part of the redevelopment process to ensure the building’s heritage integrity is preserved and celebrated,” she said.
“Victoria Quay continues to evolve, and this new development will occur alongside the redevelopment of B Shed as a Rottnest departure point and performance space.”
The new venue is scheduled to open in late 2026.
