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#1 ·
Dear Members,

Please share information related to hotels and resturant projecs in Kolkata in this thread. Information regarding existing ones as well as ongoing and upcoming projects can be share here.
 
#130 ·
List of the 5 star Hotels under construction.
If someone has any info about the Radissons here please share.

Sonar II - 500 keys
Novotel - 300 keys + 50 Serviced apartments
Taj gateway - 200 keys
Radisson (Kazi Nazrul Islam Sarani)
Radisson (Hastings road)
MBD Radisson (Airport)
Great Eastern - 244 keys
Shirishti Corp's Westin - 323 keys

Apart from the above some proposed 5 and 4 star hotels
Leela looking for mgmt contracts
Mariott in front of Unitech infospace - 242 keys - Proposed
Park Hotel by Apeejay in Rajarhat
Hyatt - land already allocated
Golden Tulip - Proposed
Hotel by Rossell Tea Ltd - Proposed
 
#132 ·
Ok its a puzzle only God can solve

the Cervera Pioz website show these two (1 and 2) renders for the Westin/Intercontinental Hotel





While the CP Kukereja's website has these two





the above two are the architects involved in the construction of the hotels.

and Shrishti Corps Website too shows the above images interchangeably.
also no one's calling it a Westin. Its still called Intercontinental everywhere. Is it really a Westin?
 
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#143 ·
Pride Hotels eyes 30 properties by 2015 in India
Takes up the management of Park Premier Gurgaon
Monday, August 09, 2010, 19:00 Hrs [IST]
By P Krishna Kumar | Gurgaon

Pride Hotels promoted by SP Group plans to expand in India and is eyeing a total of 30 properties by 2015. The Group currently operates 10 hotels under three different branding – The Pride Hotel (five-star luxury brand); Pride Biznotel (Business hotels); and Pride Resorts. According to S P Jain, Managing Director, The Pride Hotels, the Group will be adding 20 more properties through both owned and operated and management model by 2015. Out of this, five will be the Group’s own properties.

Jain also informed that the Group will become a 3,000-room hotel group by 2015. While half of these rooms are expected to be from own hotels, managed hotels will make up the remaining half.

Sharing the expansion plans of the Group, Satyen Jain, CEO, Pride Hotels said that the Group would be investing around Rs 1,000 crore for setting up five five-star hotels across the country. These, he said, will come up in Mumbai, Goa, Kolkata, Alibaugh (Maharashtra), etc. He said that company is serious about opening a property in Eastern India as the brand has no presence there. The Group will be adding a resort hotel in Munnar (Kerala) to its umbrella by the end of this year, he said.

Besides, the Group has forayed into the hospitality sector of National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi by signing management contract with Punihani International for their existing business hotel Park Premier at Gurgaon. With this new addition, Pride Hotels has 10 hotels across the country.

The 94-room business hotel located at the Millennium City Centre close to the main corporate hub of Gurgaon is well-equipped to cater to the corporate clients. The hotel has three variants of luxury accommodation – Deluxe Room, Premier Rooms and Executive Rooms – with each room equipped with plasma TV, mini-bar, tea and coffee maker, direct dial phones, Wi-Fi connectivity and electronic safe. In the F&B segment, Pride Park Premier boasts a 24-hour Coffee Shop – Downtown Café, a speciality restaurant – 29th The Grill and a Bar Lounge. The hotel also has a banquet hall Onyx, which can accommodate 300 pax and a meeting room Ornate, which can accommodate 40 pax. Besides, there is a spa, wellness centre and a health club in the hotel.

Commenting on the tie up with Pride Hotels, Kulbir Singh Punihani, Managing Director, Park Premier said that lack of experience in running the hotel was impacting the overall marketing and sales of the property, since it was launched and that made the promoters for management tie up.
 
#154 ·
South Kolkata is considered to be the more affluent part of the city. Although most of the locations in South were traditionally residential neighbourhoods,but offlate many commercial buildings have come up in many places in the South,Lansdowne Road,Old Ballygunge Road,AJC Bose Road (from Exide to Beckbagan) being some of them. Considering all these,one can really expect some more star-rated hotels in this part of the city.

Btw,Taj Bengal is in Alipore and it very much falls under South Kolkata only! Although its not in the central of South (like Rashbehari),it is at the south western end.
The other star hotel projects coming up in South (although not in proper) would be the Taj Gateway on Rashbehari Connector-EM Bypass crossing near Ruby Hospital and the Radisson group hotel in Hastings..
 
#155 ·
Source

Best Western India to open five franchise properties by end of August 2011
Monday, August 09, 2010, 10:00 Hrs [IST]
By Rashmi Pradhan | Bengaluru
Best Western India will open five franchise properties in Gurgaon, Goa, Ajmer, Delhi and Ahmedabad by end of August 2011. All the five hotels are under construction, however, the Gurgaon and Goa property are expected to be operational by September 2010. Besides, the Ajmer, Delhi and Ahmedabad properties are expected to open in a year’s time. Of the upcoming properties, Delhi hotel will be the Best Western Premier Hotel.

Speaking exclusively with Hospitality Biz about the development, Sudhir Sinha, President and Chief Operating Officer, Best Western India said, “All the upcoming properties are under construction and we have consciously decided on this part. If the owner is associated with us from the beginning, it is easier for us to set the property as per our standards and hence there is scope of any amendments and changes if required.”

Best Western India has recently signed a Best Western Premier in Mohali, Punjab. The company is scouting for locations in cities including Ahmedabad, Pune, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Guwahati and Darjeeling. Sinha added, “We are also looking up for multiple properties in metros.”
 
#159 ·
There was a new article last year which said that the project didn't get permission because of WBPCB and some NGO opposing it on grounds of that such construction would affect migratory birds. Not sure if the issue has been resolved since

Swabhumi’s plea for construction rejected

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/swabhumis-plea-for-construction-rejected/495836/

The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) refused to give its nod to the construction project at Swabhumi, a heritage plaza on the E M Bypass.

Advocate Kallol Bose, counsel for the WBPCB, moved the plea in the Calcutta High Court saying the board has formed an expert committee to conduct an environmental impact assessment on the construction project. According to legal provisions, the assessment is required to approve the construction project, said Bose.

The Forum For Human, Legal and Ecological Rights, an NGO, had filed a PIL in November 2008 alleging that the KMC had allowed a private company to build a hotel at Swabhumi illegally.

It was alleged in the petition that the KMC had handed over the area of around 13 acre, a hillock-type land, beside the E M Bypass to Ganapati Park, a private company, for developing a park in 1994. Advocate Shib Prasab Mukherjee, counsel of the NGO, said that environment as well as greenery of the park would be damaged by the proposed construction. A large number of migratory birds are found at Subash Sarovar, near Swabhumi. So the construction at Swabhumi might obstruct the movement of these birds, Mukherjee added.
 
#161 ·
dunno. But I think many projects nowadays get stalled in the name of environment by NGOs. If these NGOs are really concerned about environment they would be spending time tackling the root cause of the problem - population growth and unawareness. With so many highrise blocks coming up all around, not sure how a mid rise hotel would be such a problem.
 
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