Overview
- IHG and SKS signed a franchise agreement for Holiday Inn Express Cockburn, slated to open in September 2026.
- The 170-room hotel will anchor a mixed-use project with a separate residential tower about 26 km south of Perth’s CBD.
- Developers say the location will serve demand from the Australian Marine Complex and the Murdoch medical precinct.
- SKS says it repositioned the project to the Holiday Inn Express brand based on confidence in IHG’s commercial performance.
- IHG frames the signing as an important expansion of its Western Australia portfolio, with the development already under construction.