Demolition of Swansea’s former Oceana nightclub building will start towards the end of November.
Swansea Council has now appointed Cuddy Group to lead the project, which should be finished by the end of May next year.
The council completed the purchase of the 0.55-acre site in September as the first step of a plan aimed at transforming Kingsway into a business district. The building, originally constructed by the Rank Organisation in 1967 for a cinema, has accommodated a number of bars and nightclubs over the years, including Ritzy and Icon, Time and Envy, and, most recently, Oceana.
Only work inside the property will take place in the build-up to Christmas, so there’ll be no impact on festive trade in the area. All the building’s fixtures and fittings will be stripped-out and removed for recycling or re-use, wherever possible.
The demolition is being funded by the Welsh Government’s Vibrant and Viable Places Swansea City Centre regeneration programme that was awarded in June, 2014.
Vibrant and Viable Places (VVP) is a three-year programme (2014-2017) through which Swansea Council has been awarded £8.53 million to target key regeneration projects in the city centre.
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