Blind School, Trade Union & Unemployment Resource Centre and Flying Picket/Hardman Street - £5m redevelopment

Liverpool’s Hope Street Hotel owner unveils £5m expansion plan

LIVERPOOL’S Hope Street Hotel today unveiled plans for a £5m expansion.

The Hope Street Hotel founder and chief executive Dave Brewitt has bought the adjoining derelict listed building complex.

He intends to convert the former Blind School, Trade Union & Unemployment Resource Centre and Flying Picket bar over the next 18 months.

Mr Brewitt said: “This is the right time to start on the project, so we will be running when the economy finally picks up.”

The £5m scheme will include 40 serviced apartment bedrooms, gastro-pub, bistro, chocolatiere and coffee shop, a restaurant which it is hoped can reach Michelin standard, a spa and offices.

The complex, built between 1851 and 1931, is opposite the Philharmonic Hall and Dining Rooms on the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street.

It will increase the floorspace of the original 89-bedroom Hope Street Hotel by about 40% but it is uncertain if the hotel’s brand will be used for the new expansion.

The hotel itself will not be expanded but it will manage the serviced apartment rooms.

While not revealing how much the Grade II-listed buildings cost him to buy from the estate of the late Wirral developer Gerry White, Mr Brewitt said it was “slightly above” market value.

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Given it's own thread as technically it is not the Hope Street Hotel.