Ex-Crows players join forces to drive $40m transformation of Hackney Hotel
It’s been the cause of many hangovers over the years but now the iconic 1883 Hackney Hotel is being refashioned into a blue-chip residential and retail site with three former Crows players at the helm of its resurrection. SEE WHAT’S PLANNED.
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Parts of the iconic Hackney Hotel are coming down brick by brick as three former Adelaide Crows players get closer to seeing a $40 million development rise from the rubble.
Mark Ricciuto, Nathan van Berlo and Bernie Vince are reinventing the 137-year-old Adelaide pub as the cornerstone – quite literally – of the Botaniq residential and retail precinct on the site once the heartland of the working class.
Ricciuto, who purchased the heritage-listed pub with van Berlo and Vince in 2012, says many South Australians “have a story to tell” about their time at the ‘Hackney’.
It’s been the place of premier’s toasting their election wins, footballers revelling in Mad Monday antics, and university and college sporting teams burying grand final losses and wins with beer and bad headaches to follow.
Built in 1883, Ricciuto says the Hackney Hotel’s original structure is being retained and will re-open refashioned in mid-2021.
Demolition of the pub’s decade-upon-decade of refurbished additions has now been completed, with the construction of 27 multistorey apartments, 15 townhouses, six two-storey Skylofts and a 75-bedroom hotel beginning in August.
The former pub will be transformed into a two-storey restaurant and hospitality complex, beside Hackney Rd-facing retail outlets.
“It won’t be the pub that it was – it will be a better, 2021, version of it with people eating breakfast and drinking a coffee after a visit to Botanic Gardens, or a run or a bike ride through nearby Linear Park. It’s such a prime site that was really under-utilised.”
New interior images provided to the Advertiser show high-end apartment living in the city fringe with views of the hills through to the city parklands and Adelaide Oval.
“I could see myself living in one of these,” says Vince.
“It certainly is the biggest development I’ve ever been involved in. It’s been a project that has been discussed for a long time now so to finally get demolition underway is super exciting.”
So far, 75 per cent of apartments have been sold and four of the six retail spaces are under contract.