Keel Square Hotel

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Boris Bear said:
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Just think, in two years time that entire area is going to be unrecognizable to what we know it to be.

People have slated Keel Square, but it will become the center of a hub of business, restaurants, venues and hotels around the Vaux site. For those who slate our city centre, the area will be essentially reborn and will become the new "core" of everything.

Even the Chronicle is admitting now Sunderland is changing, we're going to smash those negative perceptions :cool:
 


MrOompapa said:
Just think, in two years time that entire area is going to be unrecognizable to what we know it to be.

People have slated Keel Square, but it will become the center of a hub of business, restaurants, venues and hotels around the Vaux site. For those who slate our city centre, the area will be essentially reborn and will become the new "core" of everything.

Even the Chronicle is admitting now Sunderland is changing, we're going to smash those negative perceptions :cool:
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I wouldn’t get carried away if I were you.

Unless someone can tell me the one and only building on the Vaux site is fully occupied and that others are planned who have waiting tenants?

The potential is there for sure though!
 
TheWanderer said:
I wouldn’t get carried away if I were you.

Unless someone can tell me the one and only building on the Vaux site is fully occupied and that others are planned who have waiting tenants?

The potential is there for sure though!
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It's just phase one, there will be more buildings set to be built following it. I don't know about the tenants.
 
It will take 30 years knowing how slow we are to build things. In Newcastle they tear something down and a new improved building is there within a year.
 
MrOompapa said:
Just think, in two years time that entire area is going to be unrecognizable to what we know it to be.

People have slated Keel Square, but it will become the center of a hub of business, restaurants, venues and hotels around the Vaux site. For those who slate our city centre, the area will be essentially reborn and will become the new "core" of everything.

Even the Chronicle is admitting now Sunderland is changing, we're going to smash those negative perceptions :cool:
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The Hotel, the apartments opposite and Gillbridge converted to offices for the IT Company that are moving in

TheWanderer said:
I wouldn’t get carried away if I were you.

Unless someone can tell me the one and only building on the Vaux site is fully occupied and that others are planned who have waiting tenants?

The potential is there for sure though!
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Building one has tenants lined up. The fit out is in the 2018/19 budget for the building, to suit the needs of the tenants.

Buildings 2 and 3 have a lot of interest.
 
 
Boris Bear said:
The Hotel, the apartments opposite and Gillbridge converted to offices for the IT Company that are moving in


Building one has tenants lined up. The fit out is in the 2018/19 budget for the building, to suit the needs of the tenants.

Buildings 2 and 3 have a lot of interest.
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I thought the other day as I walked across there, if the old Corner Flag got flattened and there were cafes and restaurants at the ground floor of the old tax buildings it would be great.
 
Baghdad McBadLad said:
It will take 30 years knowing how slow we are to build things. In Newcastle they tear something down and more student accommodation is there within a year.
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fixed that for you. Its basically all Newcastle is developing at the moment.
citybythesea said:
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I quite like it, but it does look like the top half of the old national savings building in Durham. We may have done a deal to get it on the cheap. WDSC
 
Bladecat said:
I thought the other day as I walked across there, if the old Corner Flag got flattened and there were cafes and restaurants at the ground floor of the old tax buildings it would be great.
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That's what is planned. Apartments above ground floor in the old tax buildings. Also, discussions have been held about redeveloping the block opposite Boulevard (the block next door to Primark).

Keel Square should be a bustling hub in a couple of years
 
Nice to see new builds going up, but I think Sunderland once again have kicked their heels for to long, the events that attracted people to the town are almost none existent, no more concerts and the football club is sliding down the shitter, only the airshow left now.
 
Dinsdale said:
fixed that for you. Its basically all Newcastle is developing at the moment.




I quite like it, but it does look like the top half of the old national savings building in Durham. We may have done a deal to get it on the cheap. WDSC
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If you look at the planning application the materials they are planning to use for the hotel are not cheap. Whether people like the style may well be a matter of taste but it's not going to be cookie cutter development.

Teed said:
Nice to see new builds going up, but I think Sunderland once again have kicked their heels for to long, the events that attracted people to the town are almost none existent, no more concerts and the football club is sliding down the shitter, only the airshow left now.
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And the illuminations.

The hotels are not just to service events though. Most of their occupancy will be people travelling for work. Those people stay (and spend their money) in Newcastle at the moment.
 
Teed said:
Nice to see new builds going up, but I think Sunderland once again have kicked their heels for to long, the events that attracted people to the town are almost none existent, no more concerts and the football club is sliding down the shitter, only the airshow left now.
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That's a bit pessimistic, given that the Empire has been doing well for years, and the Old Fire Station is getting redeveloped as a venue too. Arguably will soon be better than it has been in recent memory. The football team is obviously rubbish but there's nothing the council can do about that (or anyone really, other than Ellis Short). Also things like putting the new college site in the city centre is exactly what's needed to improve footfall, as well as the stuff around Keel Square mentioned above. And in terms of entertainment, the cinema we have now is far better and more popular than the offering we had when I was growing up.
 
The Great Soprendo said:
That's a bit pessimistic, given that the Empire has been doing well for years, and the Old Fire Station is getting redeveloped as a venue too. Arguably will soon be better than it has been in recent memory. The football team is obviously rubbish but there's nothing the council can do about that (or anyone really, other than Ellis Short). Also things like putting the new college site in the city centre is exactly what's needed to improve footfall, as well as the stuff around Keel Square mentioned above. In terms of entertainment, the cinema we have now is far better and more popular than the offering we had when I was growing up.
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plus winter garden & museum and gallery, glass centre, beaches etc. While no one is saying cancel your week in Turkey and come to Sunderland, its not a bad place for people to come for a weekend break.
 
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