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The mystery businessman who bought the Sirius Building in a deal kept cloaked in secrecy by the NSW government has family connections to billionaire Vietnamese fashion moguls.
Former Macquarie Banker Jean-Dominique Huynh snared a slice of the city’s most coveted real estate last June when his company agreed to pay $150 million for the public housing tower at the foot of the Harbour Bridge, overlooking Circular Quay and the Opera House.
The 36-year-old from Vaucluse will sculpt the harbour skyline as he transforms the building into luxury apartments, while preserving its brutalist facade.
The sale of the Sirius was meant to end years of controversy over its future, following the government’s ousting of hundreds of vulnerable tenants from their homes.
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