McGettigan Family plan £9m Hotel on Belfast’s Linenhall Street

The proposal for the 91-bedroom hotel has been submitted by a new company founded by Brian McGettigan, CEO of The Address Collective.

Plans for a 91-bedroom hotel in a five-storey Victorian red brick office building next to the Ulster Hall on Linenhall Street have been submitted.

The planning application was submitted by BCS Belfast Limited. The application to Belfast City Council proposes ‘a four star hotel for the building, creating around 70 jobs, including 25 full-time posts.’ The £9m investment plan also involves a spa, bar and restaurant at the site.

The 125-year-old structure sits in Belfast’s Linen Conservation Area, built around 1900 for as an office and warehouse for Linen manufacturers McCrum Watson and Co.

The project is being designed by Dublin firm Tyler Owns Architects, which has a long-standing working relationship with the McGettigan Hotels group.

The McGettigan group now span 11 hotels, including the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny and the Bonnington in Dublin. Six trade under The Address Collective. A seventh Address hotel is due to open on Dublin’s Capel Street later this year, the group’s third Address venue in the city. The family firm recently opened its second Address hotel in Glasgow during July, joining sites in Sligo and Cork.