Council to spend $5m to extend 111-year-old CBD pub
Ipswich City Council has already spent $6.2 million restoring the historic building. A deal is being worked out with a ‘very successful and known’ hotel operator to come on board.
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Ipswich City Council has already spent $6.2 million restoring the historic building. A deal is being worked out with a ‘very successful and known’ hotel operator to come on board.
The owner of a new cafe hopes to contribute to breathing new life into an embattled part of Ipswich.
Premium Content Subscriber only WORKS to restore an 111-year-old pub in the Ipswich CBD have been completed but the focus has now turned to what will fill the historic building. An extension to the Commonwealth Hotel could be on the cards to accommodate a hotelier once again with the current footprint deemed too small to make a modern operation viable. The building, also known as Murphy’s Town Pub, was bought by council-controlled entity Ipswich City Properties in 2014 and was identified as unsafe for occupancy in 2015. The Commonwealth Hotel in the Ipswich CBD. Division 3 councillor and ...
It is understood discussions have taken place with significant brands which have yet to set up elsewhere in Ipswich to open in the redeveloped CBD.