400 Guestrooms for 'Met'
Plans for the overhaul and extension of the Metropole Hotel in Cork city centre have been detailed by the company proposing the works.
A report in the Irish Examiner reveals that a total of over 400 bedrooms would be incorporated into the extension, refurbishment and also the development of new hotel facilities at the adjacent former garage site on St Patrick’s Quay.
The latter element is to be a seven-storey boutique ‘Hotel M’ building with 228 bedrooms on the former PJ O’Hea garage site on the quay and running up Harley Street, which joins the quay and MacCurtain Street.
The two hotel facilities would be joined by pedestrian link bridges across Harley Street, at first and sixth-floor levels.
A decision is expected within weeks on the proposed redevelopment of a former telephone depot to a residential site.
