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Ardree Site Sold

  • 02-04-2017 10:19pm
    #1
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭


    Just to knock the misery guts below down a bit. It’s official now the Ardree site is sold and 5 star hotel planned.

    https://twitter.com/damienrte/status/848627520832516098

    Can’t wait for it to reopen. The view is fantastic.


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  • #2
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,781 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    jesus, things are changing fast for waterford over the last few weeks. this is great


  • #3
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    angry-baby.jpg


  • #4
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,781 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    http://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2017/0403/864749-waterford-hotel/


  • #5
    Hoffmans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Hoffmans


    Good news local investment and local jobs


  • #6
    SweetCaliber
    Registered Users Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭SweetCaliber


    Wonder will it be knocked and rebuilt from the ground up, can't imagine it's in great shape at the moment?


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  • #7
    Gavlor
    Registered Users Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    SweetCaliber wrote: »
    Wonder will it be knocked and rebuilt from the ground up, can't imagine it's in great shape at the moment?

    Nope, he said today that it's going to be a refurb


  • #8
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The whole structure looked pretty ropey from the last pictures I saw but presumably they've had the surveyors in and the fallen floors/ceilings count as non structural.


  • #9
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    The whole structure looked pretty ropey from the last pictures I saw but presumably they've had the surveyors in and the fallen floors/ceilings count as non structural.

    Interesting. Maybe this building comes from those legendary times when structures were built to survive a nuclear blast! It's such a local landmark that it would be nice to have it refurbished and looking modern and nice again.

    Apparently he wants a rooftop bar on it. Now that would be a place worth going to of a night!


  • #10
    Samsgirl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,190 ✭✭✭Samsgirl


    fricatus wrote: »
    Interesting. Maybe this building comes from those legendary times when structures were built to survive a nuclear blast! It's such a local landmark that it would be nice to have it refurbished and looking modern and nice again.

    Apparently he wants a rooftop bar on it. Now that would be a place worth going to of a night!


    And a dip in the rooftop swimming pool!


  • #11
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,459 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    fricatus wrote: »
    Interesting. Maybe this building comes from those legendary times when structures were built to survive a nuclear blast! It's such a local landmark that it would be nice to have it refurbished and looking modern and nice again.

    Hardly,
    It was opened in the 1960's, the same decade thats brought us the Waterford train station.

    Personally I think the eye sore should be knocked, if they aren't going to knock it then they need to do a serious visual change to the front of the building.


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  • #12
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,781 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Hardly,
    It was opened in the 1960's, the same decade thats brought us the Waterford train station.

    Personally I think the eye sore should be knocked, if they aren't going to knock it then they need to do a serious visual change to the front of the building.

    possibly but you d be surprised what can be done in refurbishments. theres some fantastic ideas and possibilities in that industry, very imaginative people in it.


  • #13
    Irishlad2014
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭Irishlad2014


    Has there been any update on this since the purchase?


  • #14
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭BBM77


    Irishlad2014 wrote: »
    Has there been any update on this since the purchase?

    Have not seen any planning permission submitted yet. But there has been activity on the site since it was sold.


  • #15
    spankmemunkey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭spankmemunkey


    If you google Waterford city council planning, and you get their website you can use the planning map to see what planning permission has been put in anywhere in Waterford as far back as the 60's its very interesting.

    But anyway no planning has been put forward for the hotel


  • #16
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,781 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    If you google Waterford city council planning, and you get their website you can use the planning map to see what planning permission has been put in anywhere in Waterford as far back as the 60's its very interesting.

    But anyway no planning has been put forward for the hotel

    maybe hes waiting to see what happens with the north quays?


  • #17
    mooseknunkle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭mooseknunkle


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    maybe hes waiting to see what happens with the north quays?

    He was on the radio last year and he said it wouldn't be opening for 3 years at the earliest


  • #18
    Deiseen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭Deiseen


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    spankmemunkey wrote: »
    If you google Waterford city council planning, and you get their website you can use the planning map to see what planning permission has been put in anywhere in Waterford as far back as the 60's its very interesting.

    But anyway no planning has been put forward for the hotel

    maybe hes waiting to see what happens with the north quays?

    Rob stated above that he is waiting on part of NQ development.


  • #19
    jelutong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,152 ✭✭✭jelutong


    The owners of a certain city hotel aren't exactly helping to speed the process along,if you follow me.


  • #20
    iseegirls
    Registered Users Posts: 2,989 ✭✭✭iseegirls


    jelutong wrote: »
    The owners of a certain city hotel aren't exactly helping to speed the process along,if you follow me.

    Go on....


  • #21
    Max Powers
    Registered Users Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    iseegirls wrote: »
    Go on....

    Exactly, pretty sure,ardree owner said waiting on north quays, I think they may have started stripping place out but no major refurb work by any stretch, there is no gossip, no hotel stopping it, or any other news there.I think whatever OP heard is usual bar stool stuff, inaccurate.


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  • #22
    Deiseen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭Deiseen


    Max Powers wrote: »
    iseegirls wrote: »
    Go on....

    Exactly, pretty sure,ardree owner said waiting on north quays, I think they may have started stripping place out but no major refurb work by any stretch, there is no gossip, no hotel stopping it, or any other news there.I think whatever OP heard is usual bar stool stuff, inaccurate.

    Realistically, the only thing they could hold up is planning permission and we are quiet a bit away from that I think


  • #23
    StringerBell
    Registered Users Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Story I was told is that there has been a challenge issued with regards the legitimacy of the sale from NAMA.

    I heard this from a very prominent member of the business community who is pretty spot on most of the time with his info tbf to him. Not like he was boasting about being in the know or anything, came up in a general conversation about the North Quays and how much of an asset the hotel could be when refurbished. Said there was this potential issue, his own take on it is the guy who has filed the claim is looking for a payoff.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • #24
    curmudgeonly
    Registered Users Posts: 278 ✭✭curmudgeonly


    StringerBell wrote: »
    Story I was told is that there has been a challenge issued with regards the legitimacy of the sale from NAMA.

    I heard this from a very prominent member of the business community who is pretty spot on most of the time with his info tbf to him. Not like he was boasting about being in the know or anything, came up in a general conversation about the North Quays and how much of an asset the hotel could be when refurbished. Said there was this potential issue, his own take on it is the guy who has filed the claim is looking for a payoff.

    This is true, no bridge over troubled waters here


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