An adult entertainment venue in a 135-year-old heritage building could soon be replaced with a 30-storey tower topped with a rooftop bar.
The Grosvenor Hotel on the corner of George and Ann streets in the Brisbane CBD was built between 1881 and 1882.
![A historical image of the Grosvenor Hotel circa 1929.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170613175316im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/3/0/0/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwnyk7.png/1497079496951.jpg)
Early images of the hotel show a verandah surrounding the hotel that connected with the Grosvenor Hotel signage.
This has since been removed and replaced with airconditioner compressors and a sign saying "cold beer, hot girls" sits above the entrance.
![The Grosvenor is located on George Street in the Brisbane CBD.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170613175316im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/n/b/9/c/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwnyk7.png/1497079496951.jpg)
The heritage building is currently used by adult entertainment venue The Grosvenor, which promotes its venue as having a topless bar and strip club.
On December 12, 2016, Brisbane City Council received a development application from town planners Jensen Bowers on behalf of their client Lionmar Holdings.
Lionmar Holdings purchased the site for $4.4 million in November 2010.
They have proposed a 30-storey mixed-use development.
![The Grosvenor Hotel is currently used as an adult entertainment venue.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170613175316im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/n/b/9/d/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gwnyk7.png/1497079496951.jpg)
What is proposed:
- 30-storey tower reaching 110 metres
- 26 commercial office levels
- Two bar/cafe/restaurant tenancies
- Two residential penthouse apartments
- A rooftop bar on level 29
- Two basement levels
- 13 car parks, 10 bicycle parks and service bays
![A design image for the proposed development at the Grosvenor Hotel, Brisbane.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170613175316im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/w/o/3/0/7/image.related.articleLeadNarrow.300x0.gwnyk7.png/1497079496951.jpg)
The Grosvenor Topless Bar and Strip Club owner Jasmine Robson said business was running as usual but their future was in question.
"We have 19 years left on our lease ... the owner will have to enter negotiation," Ms Robson said.
"It took us 12 months to get the licences to be able to operate how we do now, there would have to be some significant negotiation on the matter."
Ms Robson said if a negotiation was met the business would like to continue operating at another appropriate site in the inner city.
As the hotel is heritage-listed the development application included a heritage impact report.
"The Grosvenor Hotel was constructed in 1881-82 and is the only remaining example of a CBD building designed by prominent Brisbane architect J.R. Hall," the report said.
"It is also one of the few colonial-era corner hotels remaining in the CBD."
The report cites the many makeovers and uses of the site, including as a McCafe and McDonald's office and training area in 1985.
"It is considered that the present condition of the Grosvenor Hotel is largely representative of the unsympathetic adaptation of the building that took place when during the period of McDonalds' ownership from 1985," the report says.
"The proposed partial demolition works of the heritage place have been carefully considered in order to minimise adverse impacts on the limited extent of original, early fabric within the building, integrating same into the proposed mixed-use development of the subject site and removing many intrusive elements added recently to the interior of the hotel in the process.
"The proposed works will retain significant building fabric as well as provide for the significant land use to continue on the subject site (as a hotel/bar) while allowing the redevelopment of the site in a manner commensurate to its CBD location."
Council's city planning boss Julian Simmonds said council had concerns about the proposal and feared the heritage value could not be preserved with the extent of works required to construct the tower.
"Council has requested more detail, to determine if it could be constructed without causing damage to the facade," Cr Simmonds said.
He said the council also had concerns about the proposed design of the commercial building component of the application.
The council is currently assessing the application and it is open for feedback as part of the public notification requirement until June 15.
The building owner intends to live in the penthouse with his family.
Jensen Bowers declined to comment further on the development application.
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