Mosaic Hotel WEST LAKES WORDS: JOSH TEAKLE
THE NEW MOSAIC HOTEL IN WEST LAKES IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. At the start of the year stunning is not a word that would have accurately described the former Checkside Tavern as it desperately clung to the side of a quickly evaporating Football Park. Beginning in March the “dated, dark, tired and boxy” 26-year-old Tavern underwent a huge $4.5m redevelopment to completely overhaul the exterior and internal floor-plan, before it was rebranded and re-opened as the Mosaic Hotel in mid-September. Hotel general manager Emilee Moore came on-board mid-way through the construction process and saw it develop from an empty shell to a “classy gathering place” in the heart of West Lakes. Aside from the glamorous floor-to-ceiling windows that encompass the hotel, Emilee believed Mosaic was an appropriate name for the establishment given the wide range of people that
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had visited, enjoyed and embraced the hotel in recent months. “The demographic in West Lakes is so diverse, there are people that have lived in the region since it was established and then there is a younger, new generation down here with all the development going on around us,” she said. “Like a mosaic tile, you’ve got a piece of this and a piece of that and it all comes together in one venue so for us there is no set target focus just yet. It’s a place that keeps everyone happy, whether it be older people who come in to play bridge, families coming through for a nice dinner or a group of friends sitting around a table for hours laughing and swapping stories over a few drinks. “With 1200 dwellings going up behind us in the next three years, that’s 2500 people in our backyard. And we have no idea who that’s going to be so why not take the time to build a venue that establishes a good name and a local focus – let’s be the local hotel for all these people.”
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