{"id":504875,"date":"2026-05-27T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/504875\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:54:11","slug":"famed-dublin-city-premises-primed-for-boutique-hotel-by-paddy-mckillen-jnr-seeks-occupier-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/504875\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed Dublin city premises primed for boutique hotel by Paddy McKillen jnr seeks occupier \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Real estate investor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mel-sutcliffe\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/mel-sutcliffe\/\">Mel Sutcliffe\u2019s<\/a> Quanta Capital has retained CBRE\u2019s hotel division to secure an occupier for 13-14 Dame Court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\/\">Dublin\u2019s<\/a> south city centre. The property, a five-storey over-basement Victorian redbrick, will be better known as the former premises of the Odessa Club, which was one of the city\u2019s foremost private members\u2019 clubs, restaurants and late-night venues prior to its closure in 2017. The celebrated venue came close two years later to being redeveloped as a boutique hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Built in 1879, the subject property extends to 607.7sq m (6,541sq ft) across five floors over basement level. The building is currently in shell condition following significant structural works and presents what the letting agent describes as \u201ca blank canvas\u201d for a new occupier to complete the fit-out. The building\u2019s previous tenants, Paddy McKillen jnr\u2019s Press Up Group, previously received planning permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-city-council\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin-city-council\/\">Dublin City Council<\/a> in 2019  for the conversion of the upper floors into a 14-bedroom boutique hotel, with the 100-cover capacity ground floor restaurant and rooftop terrace at the fourth floor level retained. That plan was delayed and ultimately abandoned following the onset in early 2020 of the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CBRE\u2019s hotel division is inviting lease offers for the property and guiding an annual rent of \u20ac200,000 with a long lease term available. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Susan Joyce, of CBRE, said: \u201c13\u201314 Dame Court is one of the most distinctive buildings in Dublin city centre. Its location just off Exchequer Street and South Great George\u2019s Street and at the heart of the city\u2019s hospitality and cultural quarter make it ideal for a hospitality operator seeking a prime city centre address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The Odessa Club pictured in 2015, two years prior to its closure. \" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EWNFNDVQHFP6AXMOR3OV6JBFZM.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>The Odessa Club pictured in 2015, two years prior to its closure.  <img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The Odessa Club prior to its closure in 2017\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/M4N3ZJ37B5NKM6Y7S45KNDYWIM.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>The Odessa Club prior to its closure in 2017 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real estate investor Mel Sutcliffe\u2019s Quanta Capital has retained CBRE\u2019s hotel division to secure an occupier for 13-14&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,62843,67859,18,2154,19,17,211620,81335,41186,219272],"class_list":["post-504875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cbre","tag-dublin-2","tag-eire","tag-hotel","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mel-sutcliffe","tag-paddy-mckillen-jnr","tag-press-up-hospitality-group","tag-quanta-capital"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116645702461515535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}