Hotel planned for Cork's Coliseum site

A planning application for the site's redevelopment is to be lodged this week.

FIFTY years after the closure of the former Coliseum Cinema in Cork city, come plans to finally demolish it, and to replace the property which is still in active leisure use with a €15 million, 171-bed hotel.

Behind the proposal for the strategically-located site are major Irish investors/fund, Davy Real Estate: it's set at the corner of MacCurtain Street and Brian Boru Street, between the city’s bus and rail stations and 200 metres from new office blocks under construction.