Fierce advocate Faye Hartley calls time as Stuart Park corner store up for sale

AUSTRALIAN Liquor Stores Association NT is to lose its strongest advocate — president Faye Hartley — as she calls time on her Stuart Park store

The Stuart Park shops in Darwin are for sale after 13 years of ownership by Faye Hartley. Picture: Gary Shipway

AUSTRALIAN Liquor Stores Association NT is to lose its strongest advocate — president Faye Hartley.

Faye has put her thriving Stuart Park corner store on the market and is looking forward to a well deserved retirement.

The Westralia street Grocery and supermarket business occupies a prime corner position in the Stuart Park shopping complex.

Faye, who has had the business for 13 years, said as sad as it is to be selling she and her husband are looking forward to retirement and the opportunity to do some travelling.

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“Darwin will still be home, but it will be good to have a little more time to ourselves,” Faye said.

Faye said whoever buys the store will be inheriting a thriving business.

“It is the true old style corner store where you can come, have a friendly conversation and get just about anything you need,” she said.

“It may not be the brand you want sometimes, but there is always an alternative that you can get here. We sell fresh fruit and vegetables, takeaway food, pop ups, cars, stationery, newspapers, Tatts Lotto and Golden Casket and much more.

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“The business is also a Bottlemart outlet.”

Faye describes business as brisk.

“The whole shopping complex works well,” Faye said. “It has a particularly good residential demographic and over the years there have been quite a number of apartments built.”

Faye said she will also miss her role as Australian Liquor Stores Association NT president.

She said she leaves the role she has held for seven years happy that the battle waged with the NT government over its proposed changes to the sale of liquor at corner stores has been resolved and peace now reins.

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“It is fairly stable now so I am comfortable that most things with Government have been put to bed,” she said.

Faye’s Territory Friendly Grocer business is being sold through David Loveridge’s LMPA Business Services.