A famous York name is to live on in the form of the new hotel being built on Piccadilly.
The Banana Warehouse may have been mostly demolished. But the Banana Warehouse Hotel is to rise in its place.
As YorkMix has reported in the past, the new hotel will retain the facade of the heritage building. It is held up by steel props.
Most of the rest of the famous warehouse has been removed.
Now a planning application reveals that the new accommodation will be called The Banana Warehouse Hotel.
A sign on the front of the retained facade will be created in gold stainless steel.
The 168-bedroom hotel is being built next to the recently opened 143-room Hampton by Hilton hotel.
The Banana Warehouse was built for FT Burley, wholesale fruit merchants, in 1925.
Barges delivered green bananas along the River Foss to the back of the building. Transferred to special warm ripening rooms, they were soon ready to eat and kept in refrigerated storage until sold.
Later it became home to Dave Dee Hughes’ famous Aladdin’s cave of second hand goods.