Construction will begin on Moxy Perth by October.

An East Perth eyesore will make way for a 150-room hotel when construction begins on Marriott’s Moxy Perth in October.

The hotel will be built on the skinny Hay Street site of the old Wombat Hostel, which was demolished in 2018 and has been a hole in the ground since.

Moxy Perth is being driven by a consortium of WA businesspeople and is scheduled to open by December 2021. A spokeswoman said the final development cost was yet to be confirmed with contractors.

Marriott development boss Richard Crawford said Moxy Perth would be an exciting addition to Perth’s accommodation landscape. He said with the recently opened Westin Hotel in the city centre and others Marriott would have 1200 hotel rooms in Perth.