MANY NORTH FREO

2017 - 2022 (This project is now complete)

Activation Partner: N/A

Location: North Fremantle

Use: Light industrial

Located at the former Matilda Bay Brewery site in North Fremantle, MANY North Fremantle is home to over 15 woodworkers and light industry professionals.

A place for a little more dust and noise than some of our other projects, the 800sqm warehouse space was divided into 50-100sqm studios and rarely had a vacancy.

Our tenants here included bespoke carpentry and joinery, art framing, furniture designers, steelwork and sail making.

Some words from our Spacemarket EDM on Many North Fremantle:

“Time to take you inside our little slice of semi-industrial paradise, just a walk away from unquestionably Perth’s premier beach, Leighton, and tucked in just behind the former Matilda Bay Brewery site on Stirling Highway.

When we moved out of MANY 6160 in Kings Square, it was a priority to find somewhere to house the power-tool-wielding folk who’d made the upstairs Production Floor home. That’s when we found the saw-tooth dream that would become MANY North Freo.

The studios are large and broken up into 35sqm – 150sqm lots, and inside we have sixteen exceptional characters, carpenters, makers and artists.

First up is Andy Christie with his business A Good Looking Man. Andy pulled together our workshop at MANY 6160 and now has a rambling, magical space at North Freo. He has a background in painting, film, festival-work and sculpture, while also making furniture and supporting a lot of other small businesses to do the same.

Our woodworking crew (most who have been with us since the beginning) includes third-generation carpenter, Karl Young of Saltwood Designs (pictured below), who makes incredibly impressive furniture for unique spaces. We’ve got former-geologist turned furniture-maker, Ben Savage of Square Peg, there’s Justin Elvin of Palletico who specialises in fit-outs and bespoke carpentry (and here’s a cute old video of him talking about himself), cabinetry specialist Adrian Platts of As You Wood, and furniture designer Derek Harper of Strang Studio.

Then we’ve got the makers and the shapers—Matthew Wynn shapes boards up in the mezzanine, the team at Edgar by Design make stunning tile tables to order, and abstract minimalist painter Lance Delary Simpson has set himself up in what used to be the First Aid room. “