The owners of the Swan Centre in Rathmines have submitted plans to Dublin City Council for a large hotel to be developed above the shops.
The Anderson family, who own the Dublin 6 shopping centre, intend to create a 111-bedroom hotel by removing the glass roof of the Swan. The plans, according to the Irish Times, would see the building rise as high as six stories.
The proposal would require one retail unit on the ground floor of the centre to be turned into a hotel reception. The centre turned a vacant unit on its second floor this year into a shared area with several eateries, although plant based restaurant the Vegan Sandwich Co recently confirmed they were leaving their location in the food court.
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Four floors would be visible to the public from street level, while an additional two floors would be used for storage and accessibility purposes. The exterior of the centre, which faces Rathmines Road Lower, would be refurbished in red brick cladding as part of the proposal.
The planned hotel would span both neighbouring residential street Castlewood Avenue and Rathmines Road Lower. The Swan, which has been open since 1984, underwent a significant €2 million development in recent years.
People expressed disappointment with the plans on social media, arguing that the development of another hotel was not needed. One user pointed out that residential use would be more appropriate.
“Why not apartments? Having somewhere for the staff of the swan centre to live would benefit the entire country, we don’t need more hotels,” the person wrote on Twitter. Dublin City Council did not respond to a request for comment from Dublin Live on the development.
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