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#1 ·
Another new hotel for the city centre!(I will include the rest, built and proposed as soon as I've got time)

City Centre Ward 077062/FO/2005/C2 08/11/2005 Corner Of Wyre Street And Fairfield Street Adjacent To Manchester Piccadilly Station City Construction of new 73 bedroom hotel with ancillary functions and 4 meeting rooms
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#53 ·
I would'nt be surprised if there is more to this than current take up rates for hotel rooms in Manc. The continued and projected growth of the airport will play a part because longhall and some shorthall aircrews need hotel accommadation, and with so many flights from Manc this alone creats a considerable demand. Also the term 'speculate to accumulate' is what businesses especially the larger hotel operators only like to do if the accumulation is pretty likley otherwies why take the risk? I think some big things are going to happen in Manchester and the big business leaders know this...so little risk! Maybe something could be announced at the Labour conference in Sept.
 
#54 ·
If nothing else, more hotels always give a good indication that a city/city centre is going to see more investment and tourism.

Being lazy here. Does anyone know the total hotel rooms planned? (Eastgate, Crown, City Inn, The Fire Station, and BT house) 1000+? Phew!
 
#56 ·
May have been posted before.

Gives a general idea of the hotel boom currently taking place in Manchester.

A LUXURY hotel boom is underway in Manchester as plans are revealed to almost double the number of high-class rooms.
Three prestige schemes outlined today will raise the number of four-star rooms serving the city centre by more than 1,000 to about 2,500.
The plans are underpinned by Manchester's increasing popularity as a business, conference sporting and entertainment centre.

Hotel owners and city tourism chiefs say attractions, including the four premiership football clubs within Greater Manchester, the G-Mex exhibition centre, Manchester International Convention Centre, the M.E.N. Arena and other concert venues, have created a bonanza.

Mixed
The three ventures revealed today are:
*A 230-bed four-star project on the Smithfield site of the bustling Northern Quarter area. Developer Ician has revealed it is having talks with the Inter-Continental Hotels Group.The group runs 19 hotels across the country under the Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn brands, including a Plaza hotel at Manchester Airport.
*A 231-bed four-star hotel in the former BT tower block on London Road. Scottish firm Macdonald Hotels wants planning permission to transform the building into a hotel with mixed office use. Macdonald operates 60 hotels and resorts in Britain and will be venturing into Manchester city centre for the first time, with the majority of its business focused on the four-star market.
*A 50-bedroom guesthouse being planned by the bosses of the award-winning Chinese restaurant Yang Sing to open in autumn 2006. The accommodation would be four or five-star and themed on "1920s Shanghai opulance". The company has bought a Grade-II listed former warehouse next to its current Princess Street site, which is undergoing extensive refurbishment.
Marketing Manchester, the city's tourist board, believes the increase in hotels will continue as the city capitalises on its reputation as one of Britain's most popular destinations.
Manchester can also boast its first five-star venue after the Radisson Edwardian on Peter Street was upgraded. The only other five-star hotel near the city centre is the Lowry in Salford.

Competition
Stewart Davies, duty manager of the Radisson Edwardian, which was opened last year after a £45million renovation of the historic Free Trade Hall, welcomed the competition.
He said: "Manchester has come a hell of a long way. Our occupancy rates are always full whenever there is anything on at G-Mex, M.E.N Arena, Conference Centre, or if there is a football match. During the week there are always business conferences and 90% of the weekend trade is leisure, particularly when United are playing. It is important we offer more and keep building Manchester as a tourist destination."
As already reported in trhe M.E.N, the massive 47-storey Beetham Tower on Deansgate will become britain's second-tallest building when it is completed next year. The first 23 floors will house a five-star 285-bedroom Hilton Hotel.
Local developer Inacity has also submitted a planning application to the council for a £220m complex next to Piccadilly Station. It includes a 250-bedroom four or five-star hotel, leisure space, shops, apartments and parking spaces.
In addition, The Great St John Street Hotel opens this week. The 30-suite venture is in the shell of the former school behind the Granada TV studios and is aimed at the four to five-star market. Room rates range from £235-£750 per night.

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#57 ·
This still needs a lot of work. But I present to you a partially completed survey of hotel bedrooms inside the inner relief route.

I think I've got all the major hotels (the biggest being Britannia on Portland St), but I'm missing room numbers for the budget hotels and know many of the smaller hotels have been omitted (e.g. the Ox on Liverpool Road). Feel free to correct or add to the data below.

4131 completed rooms sound like quite a lot but bear in mind that just one hotel in Vegas, the MGM Grand contains 5190 rooms. I know my list is geographically limited and must be at least 500 rooms light, but in the grand scheme of things our total room offer is almost insignificant. Therefore plenty of room for expansion.


Rooms currently trading
363 Britannia, Portland St
312 The Midland, Peter St
272 Jarvis Piccadilly
265 Jury's Inn, Gt Bridgewater St
263 Radisson Edwardian, Peter St
257 The Palace, Oxford Rd
223 Britannia Sachas, Tib St
205 Thistle, Portland St
203 Renaissance Hotel, Deansgate
167 Malmaisson, Piccadilly
165 Lowry Hotel
164 Novotel, Portland St
148 Victoria & Albert, Water St
143 Arrora, Princess St
127 Ibis, Portland St
126 Ibis, Princess St
117 Days Hotel, UMIST Campus
115 Atrium Apartotel, Portland St
108 The Place Apartotel, Ducie St
99 Gardens, Piccadilly
86 Princess, Portland St
61 Rossetti, Piccadilly
48 Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Rd
32 Mitre, Cathedral Gate
32 Walkabout Hotel, Quay St
30 Gt John St Hotel
Travellodge, Gt Ancoats St
Merchants Hotel, Back Piccadilly
Travellodge, Blackfriars St
Premier Travel Inn, GMEX 1
Premier Travel Inn, GMEX 2
Premier Travel Inn, Portland St
Premier Travel Inn, North Tower
4131 Total

Rooms under construction
284 City Inn
279 Hilton, Deansgate
48 Yang Sing, Princess St
611 Total

Proposed
230 Crowne Plaza, Smithfield
212 McDonald, London Road
Eastgate Tower……

5184 Grand Total
 
#60 ·
I work in Manchester a lot and yes it can be a real struggle to get a hotel room, on match days it is impossible. Not listed above but there is also the Copthorne, Golden Tulip and Tulip Inn, these are in Trafford so maybe that's why they're omitted ? I do feel you should count them though, equally there's an impressive amount of hotels around the airport, a Radisson SAS, Crowne Plaza and I'm sure a Hilton spring to mind.
 
#61 ·
Small article and image in todays MEN about the proposed Sleeperz Hotel. Construction to start in September.(another crane, pherhaps two for Piccadilly)

Some renders from the application and the Clash website(already been seen)











077062/FO/2005/C2

Corner Of Wyre Street And Fairfield Street Adjacent To Manchester Piccadilly Station
City

Construction of new 73 bedroom hotel with ancillary functions including meeting area and refurbishment of adjacent external areas on Wyre Street and Cotswold Street

http://www.publicaccess.manchester.gov.uk/associateddocs/MCCList1.aspx?077062/FO/2005/C2

http://www.clasharchitects.co.uk/clash_proj_mancsleeperz.htm
 
#63 ·
Tulip to bloom at the airport



A 135-bed hotel is to be built at Manchester Airport. Fast-growing international chain Golden Tulip has signed a lease with Manchester Airport Developments for a property near Junction Six of the M56.

The three-star Tulip Inn will have a 140-seater Bibo bar and bistro, with parking for 108 cars. There will also be meeting rooms available as part of Tulip Inn's Simply Meet service.

Golden Tulip will be taking a lease for 25 years. The hotel is due to be open in summer 2007. Architects Leach Rhodes Walker have designed the building.

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John Atkins, strategy and development director at Manchester Airport Developments, said: "With its striking contemporary design, this will add to the 1,500 bedrooms already serving the airport. Golden Tulip is a complementary international brand for the airport's leisure and business customer, and we look forward to a long relationship."

The new hotel is the first sign of the expansion strategy unveiled by Manchester Airport last month.

The blueprint forecasts the airport will be generating £2.3bn a year for the region's economy by the year 2030. By that time, there could be as many as 50m passengers a year through the terminals.

Capacity

It claims that there is medium and long-term capacity for freight logistics, commercial and industrial development, hotels and airport services.

It also calls for a new planning framework to accommodate growth in airport-related activities and for a relaxation of green belt restrictions preventing development around the airport.

The new hotel is another stage in Golden Tulip's rapid expansion programme. Earlier this year, it announced a £30m programme of openings.

Peter Roberts, chief executive of Golden Tulip UK, said: "The Tulip Inn Manchester Airport will be our first UK airport hotel and the fifth new Tulip Inn site we have announced this year.

"With more than 40 million passengers expected to be using the airport within a decade, and nearly 150 companies already within a 10-minute drive of the site, I am convinced this hotel will prove very popular.

"I hope this deal will help us acquire sites at other UK airports."

Golden Tulip UK operates hotels in Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle Gateshead, Portsmouth, Leeds and Dublin Airport, and is part of Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts, an international hotel group with over 500 properties worldwide.
 
#67 ·
Exciting

jrb said:
Rio Architects have updated their website with miniature renders of Macdonald's Hotel proposal.

The second render is very interesting.

http://www.rioarchitects.com/
Terrific find JRB. I'm so pleased that whilst getting some super new buildings, we are improving our best existing buildings and the 'Lazy L' definitely falls into this category!
 
#68 ·
jrb said:
Rio Architects have updated their website with miniature renders of Macdonald's Hotel proposal.

The second render is very interesting.

http://www.rioarchitects.com/
I was thinking that - extremely interesting (and cooky to boot)

I didn't know there was any space behind the old BT building for this new build with the connecting bridge thing. Any idea what the new build will be? Possibly the hotel entrance and conference etc??
 
#69 · (Edited)
In todays MEN. A very small article tucked away on page two. No images.

£30m hotel planned for trendy district.

A 30m hotel providing 150 full-time jobs is to be built in the fashionable Northern Quarter. The 228-bedroom Crowne Plaza will have the city's largest presidential suite, seven suites, 30 junior suites, 22 club rooms and 168 deluxe rooms. It will also have purpose-built meeting and conference facilities for up to 250 people and dedicated training rooms. The hotel will open in 2008.

I take it the MEN article refers to the Ician proposal?

http://www.cityparkmanchester.co.uk/hotel/index.htm
 
#70 ·
jrb said:
In todays MEN. A very small article tucked away on page two. No images.

£30m hotel planned for trendy district.

A 30m hotel providing 150 full-time jobs is to be built in the fashionable Northern Quarter. The 228-bedroom Crowne Plaza will have the city's largest presidential suite, seven suites, 30 junior suites, 22 club rooms and 168 deluxe rooms. It will also have purpose-built meeting and conference facilities for up to 250 people and dedicated training rooms. The hotel will open in 2008.

I take it the MEN article refers to the Ician proposal?

http://www.cityparkmanchester.co.uk/hotel/index.htm
on the corner of Shudehill and Swan Street

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/210/210162_new_hotel_and_square_planned.html
 
#72 ·
Nice find KITR. Renders have been thin on the ground of this development (apart from those that accompanied the planning application). Its a Leach Rhodes Walker design I think. This will be a really important building on the corner of Swan St, Great Ancoats Street and Rochdale Road, acting as a gateway to the city centre proper and a boundary to the Northern Quarter. I hope they do justice to its pivotol location in its building quality and finish.

New £30m Crowne Plaza hotel for Manchester
(25 September 2006 10:46)



Manchester is to boost its portfolio of upmarket hotels with the £30m development of the region's second Crowne Plaza.

Managed by Merseyside-based Central Island, the 228-room Crowne Plaza Manchester City Centre will open in July 2008.

It will have seven suites and 168 deluxe rooms, as well as meeting and conference facilities for up to 250 delegates.

Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese said the development marked a major part of the ongoing expansion of the city.

“The quality and diversity of our hotel stock is a reflection of the increasing number of visitors who regard Manchester as a real destination of choice for both business and leisure,” he said.

John Bamsey, UK and Ireland chief operating officer of InterContinental Hotels, which franchises the Crowne Plaza brand, said: “Manchester being the third biggest city in the UK, this fills a significant gap in our distribution. It demonstrates the strength and depth of our UK pipeline as we continue to attract significant investment in our brands.”

The construction of the new hotel is being handled by Ician Developments.
 
#73 ·
More hotels as boom continues

EXPERTS are predicting that yet more budget hotels will be built in Manchester, as the city's hotel development boom shows no sign of slowing.

The claims come as developers take the wraps off two new city centre hotel plans.

A new 75-bed Sleeperz hotel is to be built on land owned by Network Rail opposite Piccadilly station.

Network Rail's commercial property department has negotiated a 99-year lease to hotel chain Sleeperz Manchester Ltd, which has been granted planning permission for the 75-bedroom hotel opposite the Fairfield Street entrance to the station.

The hotel will sit on a wedge of land between the station and the railway viaduct, and rise six floors above the ground floor.

The design is unquestionably modern and the façade will be a mix of metal and glass.

John Pike, Network Rail's Director, Commercial Property said: "We are continually striving to maximise value from our property portfolio and we are delighted to be working with Sleeperz in identifying suitable sites for this new chain of `glorious' railway hotels."

Operating in what is now called the "limited service" sector of the hotel market - until recently known as the budget sector - the Sleeperz management team believes there is an opportunity to develop a niche hotel product.

Total investment in the hotel will exceed £4.5m and work is due to start on the site in September, 2006, so that it can open in late 2007.

Last week AMEC Developments and Crosby Homes plc announced a new £27m scheme which will see the construction of a Crowne Plaza hotel in the successful mixed-use scheme Smithfield.

Suite

The 140,000 sq ft development has been purchased by the Shudehill Hotel Company, a joint venture between First House and North West based hotel operator Centre Island. The four-star deluxe hotel, due to open in July 2008, will incorporate 228 luxury bedrooms, including the city's largest presidential suite.

Research by business consultants PKF shows that Manchester is one of the most profitable places in the UK to open a hotel.

Income from hotel rooms in the city is growing, with the return on investment rising at 6 per cent a year. This compares well with locations such as Leeds and Birmingham, where yields are either growing more slowly or falling fast.

Jennifer Viloria, head of research at PKF, says that Manchester is sure to see more budget hotel development.

"There's still sufficient demand - Manchester is one of the top 20 European business locations, and the attraction isn't just from the business side, but from the tourist side, too.

"The question is more about supply: is it the right kind?"

"The supply of four-star-plus accommodation was poor until recently, but the arrivals of the Radisson and of the new Hilton Deansgate have moved the market on, and we should now expect more development in the limited service or budget sector."

"Occupancy rates for the city's hotel beds have remained flat over the past year - about 76 per cent in the year to July, 2006, which is almost identical to the previous year.

"But this is a good sign, bearing in mind the new supply of hotel rooms which has become available during that year.

"It's a tribute to the strength of demand that the city can absorb new hotel beds without sending occupancy rates down," she says.

One of the fastest growing areas of the hotel scene is around Manchester Airport.

Earlier this summer fast-growing international chain Golden Tulip signed a lease with Manchester Airport Developments for a property near junction six of the M56.

The three-star Tulip Inn will be open in summer, 2007.
 
#75 ·
Wrappings starting to come off the "Manchester Macdonald hotel" - nice clean lines - quite optimistic about the outcome of this development - you don't realise the scale of it untill you see it close up - it's absolutely massive ! The adervtising banner states opening autumn 2007

 
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