Look out Gunnedah, a new luxury accommodation and dining experience is heading your way.
Plans for the $17.4 million hotel are to include rooms, including pet-friendly options, a restaurant, bar, gym and function space.
“The plans include a 70-room hotel with a 200 people events centre and 150-person restaurant,” said Jye Segboer, CEO Central Hospitality Group.
“Gunnedah doesn’t have anything really in the true 4 and half star accommodation bracket, so we will be the first in the area and we are really looking forward to bringing a new dining space and new accommodation options to the area.”
Once operational, the facility will create 40 positions at the hotel, with 60 per cent of those being full-time.
“It has been a vision for a long time to grow the brand outside of Tamworth and Gunnedah seems the obvious choice,” said Jye.
“We have a lot of those in the corporate market who stay with us and travel to Gunnedah or even Armidale, and the feedback is that they would really love to see the product in other areas, so they don’t need to travel back and forth,”
“And this has led us to pursue the development further and the confidence that the development in that region would work.”
The development application is currently going through Gunnedah Shire Council, and if all goes to plan, construction will begin breaking ground towards the end of this year.
“We expect the build to take around 18 months, creating over 100 construction jobs on site during that time,”
“We are planning we should be opening early 2026.”
The CH Vision
The expansion is part of the Groups growing vision to deliver more options and services to our local communities.
And Gunnedah isn’t the only development in the cards.
“We start construction this month on serviced apartments on Dean Street, near Tamworth Base Hospital,” said Jye.
“We are continuing to grow from strength to strength and always looking at new opportunities across the greater region to see where we can continue to grow the brand.”
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