Plans to give Metropole a €25m facelift

ONE of Cork city’s oldest hotels, the Gresham Metropole, is lining up a circa €25 million-plus investment which will include large-scale demolition of the rear of the property.

The development, which includes 61 apartments facing over the River Lee, is aimed at optimising the value of the hotel's central site off MacCurtain Street, said Gresham group MD Patrick Coyle.

He said the facade, which is listed, and the front section would be maintained and improved.