Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art has applied for planning approval for 'Motown', a 176-room $400 million hotel development replacing 'HoMo' slated to open in 2024.
Mona has applied for planning approval from Crown Land Services and Glenorchy City Council, which if forthcoming, could take up to a year to secure.
Mona has released in a statement, "When the Glenorchy City Council assessment process begins, members of the public will have the opportunity to provide comment. This is expected to commence in the new year."
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Artist impression
"The design, like the name, cycled through many iterations over many years, emerging through the collective efforts of architect Nonda Katsalidis, David Walsh, and others."
‘We wanted an inverted suspension bridge,’ David says, ‘The horizontal distance from the land to the point is 53 metres,’ he adds. ‘It’s not modest.’
The hotel will be five star, and have 172 rooms, looking towards Kunanyi (Mt Wellington), or up the river towards Claremont and Otago Bay.
Artist impression of the auditorium
There will be a theatre, spa centre, outdoor concert stage and library, as well as conference and auditorium facilities, and several new art works.
Hotel access will be mainly via the water, on Venice-style motoscafi ferries dreamed up in collaboration with Mona’s ferry operators, Navigators. There will be another ferry, and eventually we’ll have a boardwalk link to the main road.
Click here to view the Official MONA website with further information.
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