Overview
After closing its doors two years ago, Woolloongabba's popular Chalk Hotel is set to spring back into business. Don't go queueing for a drink on the corner of Stanley and Reid streets or planning your post-cricket or -footy brews just yet, however. The watering hole's revamp will form part of the surrounding site's redevelopment, meaning that it's likely to be a couple more years in the making.
Still, the resurrection of the pub on the city's outskirts will come as welcome news for locals, or anyone who headed to the inner east for a pint and a pizza during the ten years it was in operation. Since shutting up shop when the company behind the hotspot went into receivership, the building has lain dormant, with nothing else popping up inside to replace it.
The Courier-Mail reports that the Barakat Group and Dyldam Group will spend $3 million on the venue, including a new beer garden and an interior refurbishment, aiming to bring the site into line with the commercial, hotel and residential buildings that are in the works at adjacent properties. The Chalk's reopening is planned once the rest of development is finished, with construction slated to start within the next year, and to take up to 18 months.
Via The Courier-Mail.