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Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2017 6:15 pm
by paul cardiffwalesmap
Surely they'll want to be open for the euro final - it will make them a small fortune. Anyway wandered by today myself and things looking better all the time...
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Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2017 6:26 pm
by elgdav
I went there too and was told there's now 10 bed rooms available and they already have weddings booked from September this year til 2019.

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 11:43 am
by paul cardiffwalesmap
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No not building inspectors or demolition consultants - These are GUESTS!! I wandered by the Exchange yesterday to check on the state of play and although things were pretty quiet the doors were open and it was obvious that the hotel was in business. Got chatting to a fellow observer of the "action" (that's Steve - If you're reading Steve lovely chatting yesterday and I hope you don't mind that i've used your photo, oh and have a great time in the States!) and then something really odd happened... guests arrived!!! THE EXCHANGE IS OPEN! and god speed to you
I'm really hoping that this will be the catalyst that starts unlocking the massive potential of this superb part of butetown - so many great buildings being unused or underused at the moment. Signature Living from Liverpool could see that - and thanks for that! hopefully some Cardiff/Welsh companies will start to see it to!

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 3:16 pm
by jonbvn
I must commend the developer on an excellent job. Kudos to them. I do hope that it becomes the template for the whole area.

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Sun May 14, 2017 3:30 pm
by Peiriannydd
Yes, isn't it shameful that it took someone to come down from Liverpool with the vision and finances to make this happen!

I can't help but think that a lot of this has to do with inverted snobbery. Regardless, it's disgusting that this building was at the point of being lost forever.

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 3:34 pm
by RandomComment
paul cardiffwalesmap wrote:Image


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Photo borrowed from https://cardiffcoolcat.com/

No not building inspectors or demolition consultants - These are GUESTS!! I wandered by the Exchange yesterday to check on the state of play and although things were pretty quiet the doors were open and it was obvious that the hotel was in business. Got chatting to a fellow observer of the "action" (that's Steve - If you're reading Steve lovely chatting yesterday and I hope you don't mind that i've used your photo, oh and have a great time in the States!) and then something really odd happened... guests arrived!!! THE EXCHANGE IS OPEN! and god speed to you
I'm really hoping that this will be the catalyst that starts unlocking the massive potential of this superb part of butetown - so many great buildings being unused or underused at the moment. Signature Living from Liverpool could see that - and thanks for that! hopefully some Cardiff/Welsh companies will start to see it to!


http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales ... n-13044400

Suggests the hotel is opening the coming weekend. Perhaps the 'guests' photographed were some sort of 'test guests'? Or perhaps, Walesonline wrong again?

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:02 pm
by dave
bbc programme about coal exchange

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08trnbt

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:20 pm
by Zach
Not directly related to the Coal Exchange but the BBC programme bit jogged my memory..

This was a great programme on Hidden Cardiff, well worth a watch.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... d=b08t3qcj

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:11 pm
by Baysailor
Great documentary. The team should be proud of themselves to achieve so much and save the building. Too bad the bloke from the historical society was so negative. I guess he’d prefer the Coal Exchange to deteriorate beyond saving so he could say told you so.

Re: Hotel and luxury apartment plans revealed for coal excha

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:57 pm
by Peiriannydd
Here's the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... l-exchange

I can't wish this team any more luck than possible. This building had to to be saved. For all the critics out there, please tell us where your £40M-£50M is located to do something else with the building.