Waterfront Hotel Salthill

Dr McManus

Does anyone know what is happening with the Waterfront Hotel in Salthill?

ronnie3585

Isn't it closed?

eagle10

Rumor has it they are turning it into a giant dog hotel called "citizen canine"[FONT=Lucida Casual,Trebuchet MS,Comic Sans MS,Garamond] [/FONT]

Fey!

eagle10 wrote: »

Rumor has it they are turning it into a giant dog hotel called "citizen canine"[FONT=Lucida Casual,Trebuchet MS,Comic Sans MS,Garamond] [/FONT]

Pesumably they'll go texty with it and call it "Ctzn K9"

Dr McManus

ronnie3585 wrote: »

Isn't it closed?

Yes.

Sponge Bob

It has been closed for a while, in fact it closed when they said it would be closed.

snubbleste

So it's definitely closed then !?

Sponge Bob

snubbleste wrote: »

So it's definitely closed then !?

Unopen! But worthy of a thread in its gorious unopeness, not like that equally unopen golf and country thing in Renvyle.

Robbo

They were looking for permission to convert it into apartments, which was denied. Tellingly, their application said that the venture wasn't a goer when the tax breaks ran out.

Sponge Bob

Robbo wrote: »

They were looking for permission to convert it into apartments, which was denied. Tellingly, their application said that the venture wasn't a goer when the tax breaks ran out.

And that was a year ago at least. It actually BELONGS to a pack of bankers who used it as a tax writeoff over the years

http://www.galwaynews.ie/8789-underperforming-hotel-be-converted-holiday-apartments

September 11, 2009 - 9:00am Hotel to close at end of month


A hotel in the centre of Salthill is to close its doors for the last time at the end of the month, to be transformed into ‘short-let’ holiday apartments.
The operators of the Waterfront Aparthotel have thrown in the towel, after admitting it has not performed well since it opened in 1998, and they said it will be “wholly unviable and unsustainable” at the end of this year when incentives under the Seaside Resort Area tax scheme expire.
The business is to close on September 27, and re-open after being converted to holiday apartments. It is understood that no decision has yet been taken on whether the bar and restaurant (formerly Kitty O’Shea’s) will re-open.
John Kinnerk and Conor Kinnerk of Mindano Services Ltd in Dublin – which operates the Waterfront – were recently granted planning permission for a change of use from an apart-hotel to 34 short-let apartments.

and

http://www.thepropertypin.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25235

Anyway, to get to my point, the owners of the Waterfront Hotel are: Christine Moran, Rickard Mills, John Reynolds and Michael Gilmartin of Bencrest Properties Ltd in Dublin.

I knew I recognised at least one of those names, so a google of them threw up a lot of KBC links:

Christine Moran, Head of Corporate Banking
Rickard Mills, Head of Taxation and Pensions
John Reynolds, Chief Executive Designate
Michael Gilmartin, Head of Property Banking


http://www.kbc.ie/Business/CorporateFinance/ContactTeam/?paraID=94
http://www.kbc.ie/pdflibrary/26_03_2009 ... ?nocache=1
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/fin ... 53332.html
http://www.kbc.ie/Business/PropertyFina ... ?paraID=30

Cole

I used to love the bar/restaurant when I lived nearby. Great no nonsense and reasonably priced food.

I could go in there of a winters evening, have my pick of tables, big plate of food and watch the tv...along with the other customer.;) It was like being in your own big living room.

Dr McManus

Thank you for the information.
Has building work stopped then?

redsteveireland

I think I heard it's closed.
I also see from the lack of building work that the building work has stopped. Or maybe hasn't started, I couldn't be sure.