Premier Inn Hotels has been given the green light for an expanded hotel in the Clerys Quarter on O'Connell Street.
The hotel site was bought by the Whitbread Group-owned firm for €21.8 million last August when it already had planning permission for a seven-storey 176-bedroom four-star hotel, reports RTE. And there's more positive news for the area as Dublin City Council has this week also given planning permission to Whitbread firm PI Hotels and Restaurants Ireland Ltd for a nine storey 229 bedroom hotel at the site.
After years of works, the Clerys Quarter is set to open this summer with two major retailers Flannels and H&M to be based in this location. The major restoration project will open to the public almost eight years after the iconic Dublin store shut down, with the loss of more than 460 jobs at the time.