Popular pub to get fresh look
TOWNVILLE’S Seaview Hotel will undergo a $ 5 million facelift.
As well as a new colour and a fresh coat of paint, the iconic hotel will get a new gaming room and a renovated beer garden.
Pub owners the Paul Irvin Hotel Group will also relocate the drive- through bottleshop.
The owners will lodge a development application with the council and have employed award- winning hotel redevelopment specialists to draw designs.
TOWNSVILLE’S Seaview Hotel is set for a $ 5 million makeover.
The pub’s owner, the Paul Irvin Hotel Group, is about to lodge a development application with Townsville City Council for the refurbishment.
Like the recently redeveloped Ville resort, white is the new look.
Award- winning hotel redevel- opment specialists Darren Dickfos Architects have produced renders showing what the pub b will look like.
Hotel group director Joe Irvin said they wanted to maintain the heritage look of the property so they were making few changes to the exterior, apart from painting.
But the project will include a total rejuvenation of internal areas, the development of a new gaming room and an extensive renovation of the beer garden.
Other works will include the relocation of the drive- through bottle shop, h t to b be combined with the existing but expanded detached bottle shop in Gregory St.
Mr Irvin said it made sense to combine the drive- through and bottle shop and remove the old drivethrough building.
“We deliberately made sure we don’t change the look of the hotel too much, other than painting,” he said.
“It’s really not going to change too much. But it will be modernised.”
The Sydney- based hotel group bought the Seaview about four years ago and earlier this year acquired the next- door 6000sq m vacant development site.
Mr Irvin said they had no plans for the development site at this stage but were leaning towards commercial development.
“I’m not going to spend money on the beer garden and build units nextdoor. If I do that, I’m just going to have noise problems,” Mr Irvin said.
He said he hoped the redevelop- ment would be a catalyst for other owners to develop or refurbish sites along The Strand.
“The ocean side of The Strand is fantastic but the developed side is not that great. It really does need modernising,” he said.
Mr Irvin also hoped the council would proceed with plans for a lagoon and said they should look at the Yeppoon Lagoon.
“They need to do it. It would just lift the whole area,” he said.