# New hotel and cultural space advance at former Fix brewery site

> Greece's Culture Ministry approved restoration plans for a former Fix brewery building, following earlier approval of a new hotel project nearby.

- **Section:** New hotels
- **Published:** 2026-10-21
- **Publisher:** Voyage (https://thevoyage.gr)
- **Type:** our own summary of someone else’s reporting
- **Source:** Tornos News — https://tornosnews.gr/featured/thessaloniki-xenodocheio-kai-politismos-allazoyn-tin-periochi-tis-proin-zythopoi.html

Greece's Ministry of Culture has approved a preliminary restoration and reuse plan for building unit S2 of the former Fix brewery in Thessaloniki, along with the construction of a two-storey building for cultural use on the site. The decision follows an April approval for an architectural study for a complex of buildings at 26is Oktovriou 15 Street, which includes a building for hotel use (N1) and a building for housing with shops (N2), along with two basement levels.

The property is listed as owned by FILMA ESTATE M.A.E. and lies near the protected industrial units S1, S2 and S3 of the Fix brewery, as well as the old Central Pumping Station. Unit S2, covered by the new approval, is listed as property of the Ministry of Culture and is planned to house, among other uses, a hall for the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki.

The approval's guidelines include preserving the metal bridge connecting units S1 and S2, protecting machinery with shelters, and maintaining structural materials and architectural elements of unit S2. For the new two-storey building, authorities requested that the facades be designed to harmonize morphologically with the rest of the complex, along with a structural adequacy study.

The former brewery buildings were designated as protected historic monuments in 1994, with the designation amended in 2003. The approval followed an opinion from the Central Council for Modern Monuments, and the studies will be submitted to the relevant Ministry of Culture departments for review.

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