Work is due to resume this year on a new inner-city Newcastle hotel after the government approved amended plans for the project.
The NSW Department of Planning said on Thursday that DOMA Group's $44 million Little National Hotel and office building on Honeysuckle Drive was due to be completed by 2023.
DOMA started preliminary work on the site some time ago but has amended its plans several times.
The nine-storey building includes a 5500-square metre office tower and a 187-room hotel with a gym, bar, café and car parking.
Planning Minister Rob Stokes said the project would employ 1000 construction workers and support 60 ongoing jobs once open.
Upper House MP Taylor Martin said the mixed development would help bring people to the area both day and night.
DOMA lodged a development application for the third iteration of the project in March last year after winning approval for a 147-room hotel and 52 apartments in 2018.
DOMA changed the units to serviced apartments that year then dropped them altogether to expand the hotel and build offices.
The eight-storey Little National will sit beside an adjoining nine-storey office building on one side and a landscaped Cottage Creek on the other.
DOMA shaved two metres off the height of the office building and added two metres to the hotel when amending its plans last year.
The latest version of the plans drops the proposed commercial operation of some of the 177 car parking spaces by a third party.
The five-star Kingsley hotel in the former City Administration Centre "roundhouse" is due to open in June, and Iris Capital is working on the QT Hotel in the former David Jones building in the Hunter Street Mall.
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