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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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#1,688 ·
Malmaison boss reveals plan for a Hotel Du Vin in Manchester
November 21, 2012

Gary Davis, chief executive of Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin

The boss of upmarket hotel chains Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin today unveiled plans for a £7m investment programme in Manchester which will create 75 jobs.
Chief executive Gary Davis said Malmaison Holdings and its susidiaries was seeking a site for a Hotel du Vin and has set aside £5m for the venture, which will generate about 50 posts.

The business has also earmarked £2m for improvements at the Malmaison Manchester, leading to 25 new jobs.

Mr Davis made the announcement following news that parent company MWB Group had fallen into administration.

He said the group's 26 hotels, run by its subsidiary Malmaison Holdings, were not in administration and it was 'business as usual'.

“Manchester is an exciting city which is attracting people for major conferences, concerts and sports events, and we do well from these,” he said.

“The weekend leisure business is also doing well, and we are seeing continued improvement in occupancy.

“With the market in Manchester looking healthy, we want to launch a Hotel Du Vin in the next three years.

“Traditionally, Hotel Du Vin is based in older buildings, and we are currently looking for one that fits the brand image.”

The Malmaison Manchester upgrade, which will start in February, will include the refurbishment of 75 bedrooms and the creation of a café and late-night bar.

The hotel, which opened 11 years ago, currently employs 160 staff.

Mr Davis said: “The Manchester Malmaison is an important one in our portfolio, which is why we are keen to invest in it. It is trading strongly, with sales up five per cent year-on- year.

“The Smoak Bar & Grill restaurant was launched last year and has been popular with local people as well as customers staying in the hotel, and we believe a café offering will attract more people.”

Nationally, Mr Davis said the group planned to launch 12 new hotels, investing around £100m.

In a recent trading update Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin said both businesses were performing strongly, with sales and profits ahead by 14 per cent over the last four months on a like-for-like basis.

The MWB Group called in administrators last Friday after shares in the company were suspended on 31 October.

Investors were warned their stakes could be wiped out after part-owned subsidiary MWB Business Exchange withdrew repayments on a £4.8m loan. The temporary office space business claimed it was owed £8m by MWB Group.
 
#1,691 ·
Thanks Hulmeman! Quick read-through, you see ;)

Old buildings, hm? That probably won't apply to the former Employment Exchange on Aytoun St...

The Theatre Royal on Quay St could be a possibility?

Somewhere in Ancoats/Northern Quarter? Not really their style I'd have thought...

To be honest, I'd like a classy hotel operator to own the Palace Hotel or the Brittania on Portland St.
 
#1,693 ·
Old buildings, hm? That probably won't apply to the former Employment Exchange on Aytoun St...
You may say that, but the Employment Exchange was designed in 1936, only four years after the Whitworth Street extension of the Refuge Assurance (now Palace) building. It's not such a young whipper snapper!

I'll miss it when it's gone. The staircases look like a bit of Battersea Power station dropped into central Manchester...

Best,
Slip
 
#1,700 ·
I wasn't aware the upper levels of the Corn Exchange were empty, if so, go ahead! (but are you sure there'd be enough space for them?)
Been up there and had a look. They retain a lot of the classic (what I call) Manchester ceramic look, highly glazed tiles on the public areas / corridors that when built would have meant it was easier to wipe off the ubiquitous soot of the day.
The rooms are pretty meh really having been adapted to a number of office type uses (mainly low cost) over the years. One problem for a hotel operator would be the stairs on corridors that would cause problems adapting for disabled use.
 
#1,708 ·
Bloc to roll out affordable designer hotels across UK

21st December

By Kat Spybey

Bloc Hotels is gearing up for a UK-wide rollout and has obtained a finance package for its second hotel at Gatwick airport.

The group opened its first 73-bedroom hotel in Birmingham in April last year. It has obtained a £7m development funding package from Natwest to develop its second site, which links directly into Gatwick’s south terminal.The 244-bedroom hotel will be worth £12m on completion and is due to open in summer 2013.

Bloc offers rooms for around £45 a night. As demand for design-led, affordable hotels rockets, the hotel developer and operator is now seeking to open a portfolio of 10 hotels before the end of 2017, totalling around 2,500 rooms. It plans to extend this to 5,000 rooms by 2020.

The hotels are developed in a factory as complete rooms and then slotted into place. They can be manufactured in three months and put together in just eight days.

The group aims to capitalise on the conversion of secondary office space to other uses and is targeting both city centre freehold and leasehold opportunities.

The first step of the expansion involves extending the existing £3.5m Birmingham hotel by more than a third.

Bloc has bought the 15,000 sq ft property next to its existing hotel on Caroline Street for around £400,000 and has planning consent to convert it into 28 larger rooms, each with a kitchenette and lounge.

The average Bloc room is around 10 sq m, but the enlarged rooms will be double this. The extension is expected to open in September.

Bloc is looking at sites for new hotels in London, Edinburgh, Brighton, Manchester and other airport and transport hubs. It is focusing in particular on the capital, where it anticipates that it could ultimately operate up to 10 hotels.

It is also considering expanding into the US and is keen to find sites in Brooklyn, New York, and Yale in New Haven.

Rob Morgan, founder and director of Bloc, said: “This is something that is scalable globally, so if you are in a particular location and see a Bloc hotel you will know what you will get, much like McDonald’s or Starbucks. That’s what we want to achieve. We want international scale and brand awareness.”

Bloc will also pioneer new mobile technology at the Gatwick hotel, which will enable occupants to control the lighting and air conditioning within their room from their smartphone.
http://www.propertyweek.com/news/ne...ble-designer-hotels-across-uk/5047917.article

http://blochotels.com/
 
#1,710 ·
http://www.magproperty.co.uk/property-search/detail/85

Airport City Plot 110
Plot 110 Building 1a

Location: Manchester Airport > Airport City North
Property Type: Hotel
Floors: 6
Site Area (Acres): 0.4
Maximum Floorplate Size: 17,424 sq ft
Total Gross Internal Area: 104,755 sq ft
Designed as an international destination in its own right, Airport City will comprise over 4 million ft2 of quality design and build business space, including: Manufacturing, logistics accommodation, grade A offices, hotels, retail and leisure across a 150 acre regeneration site. Through its ownership of Manchester Airport and Airport City, MAG Developments owns the proposed site in full, enabling fewer complications and faster project delivery timescales than competing new build schemes. Benefits include:

Bespoke design and build opportunity
Ability to deliver BREEAM very good / excellent building
Part of a brand new, landscaped and sustainable location
Wealth of on-site and local amenities
Within the Manchester Enterprise Zone
On-site car parking
Only minutes walk from main transport hub
Local, regional and national bus and train connections
Direct access to M56 and regional motorway network
Easy access to all 3 airport terminals
Metrolink arriving 2016
 
#1,711 ·
Work could soon be starting on the new Travelodge at Piccadilly Gardens, with this happening soon.

P.S. As this story was being circulated we received the following response from the City Council. A spokesperson, said: "We have recently consulted with local residents and businesses over the temporary relocation of the bus stop at the bottom Oldham Street to Stevenson Square while private development work takes place to the former Nobels Arcade building at the corner of Oldham Street and Piccadilly. For the future, we are also exploring the potential of a greening scheme for the area. We will continue to work with local people as and when plans are established."
http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/News/Stevenson-Square-A-Pedestrian-Question
 
#1,713 ·
From today's MEN:

The building, currently an amusement arcade in the heart of Piccadilly Gardens, will play host to a 157-room Travelodge, complete with a cafe bar.

Supermarket chain Morrisons will open an M Local convenience store in the building, which was gutted by the 1979 blaze that claimed the lives of 10 people trapped inside.

Restaurant chains Zizzi and Nandos will also both open branches at the site, which has become an eyesore in recent years.

The revamp is being led by the building's owner Associated Property Investors and will be finished by December.

API managing director Chris Dalzell said: “As owners of the building, we are very pleased that after a long period of under use, we have been able to bring forward the refurbishment of this important and well known building in Piccadilly Gardens.

“The impressive tenant line up is testament to both the quality of the location and the strength of the Manchester economy.”

The fire in the former Woolworths building was thought to have been caused by a cigarette igniting flammable, toxic furniture on the ground floor.

Shoppers watched helplessly as fire crews battled the blaze but locked fire escapes and bars on the windows meant many of those inside were unable to escape.

The revamp is now going ahead just more than a year after a family feud over its future use was settled.

Brothers Michael and Philip Noble owned the building through their £100m Noble Group business, based in the north east.

Following Michael's 2006 death, widow Gill wanted to press ahead with plans for the leisure development, which involved evicting Philip's amusements business from the site.

Court of Appeal judges ruled in Gill's favour, paving the way for the facelift to go ahead. That can now happen after funding from HSBC was secured.

Travelodge will open its fifth hotel in Manchester city centre, which will lead to the creation of 32 jobs. The chain has pledged all will be filled through Jobcentre Plus locally.

The M Local shop, which will cover 12,000 sq ft and will include a hot food takeaway counter, will create around 20 jobs.

Meanwhile, Zizzi will occupy 6,750 sq ft and Nandos will take 5,000 sq ft. They will create more than 50 jobs between them.

Paul Harvey, managing director for development at Travelodge, said: “We are delighted to have secured this prime site in the heart of Manchester city centre.

“Manchester has traded very well over the past five years, with a thriving leisure offering thanks to its strong retail offer, vibrant social scene, the Manchester arena and due to the continued success of the city’s famous football clubs, City and United.

“When you also account for a strong business sector, boosted by the MediaCity UK development and arrival of the BBC at Salford Quays, the demand for good quality, value accommodation in Manchester city centre is growing.”

Gordon Mowat, group strategy director at Morrisons, said: “We’re excited to be bringing another Morrisons M Local to Manchester.

“Our convenience stores make it easier for busy professionals to cook a meal from scratch or pick up fresh ingredients on the way home.”

GMI Construction Group, of Leeds, is the building contractor, with Garnett Netherwood the scheme architects.

Jones Lang LaSalle’s Leeds and Manchester offices acted on behalf of API. Jenics represented Travelodge.
 
#1,715 ·
I guess Chris like most people who know or perhaps endure Piccadilly Gardens will welcome any investment, simply as it's a Kip.

I would invite Longford Ripple to launch a thirty page diatribe polemic rant, but the Gardens is a sour bag of mish fits.

But I have hope now for as the PR man says:

"Busy professionals will now be able to cook a meal from scratch."

Progress.
 
#1,718 ·
I would invite Longford Ripple to launch a thirty page diatribe polemic rant, but the Gardens is a sour bag of mish fits.
Will just reply in single sentences if it's all the same Parklifer.

Not bothered about this.

Bad memories of Piccadilly 21's Discotheque.

Could actually be the only decent looking Travelodge in the world.

Piccaddilly Gardens was always full of scruffy buggers.

Accompanied by ratdogs on string.

Progress?


 
#1,716 ·
As we know the redevelopment has been on the cards for ages for this site, like others have said it is good to see it will be turned around in such a quick time though.

A new render from the news article

 
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