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New hotels planned in Liverpool
Liverpool’s Municipal Building is set to be converted into a boutique hotel as part of a £35million transformation. The Grade II-listed building on Dale Street in the city centre previously housed Liverpool City Council administrative offices.
The makeover will retain the Municipal Building’s grand pillars, decorative vaulted ceilings and marble fireplaces.
Hotel Municipal is due for completion in late 2022. It will have 180 bedrooms and suites and will feature a brasserie with an all-day dining menu, tea-room and cocktail bar, as well as a spa complete with pool, jacuzzi and treatment facilities.
Also in Liverpool there are plans for a new hotel plus 650 apartments in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. Plans have been approved by city planners.
The new hotel with 200 bedrooms will sit on a former scrap metal site between Chaloner Street and Flint street in the city centre.
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Oddfellows Hall Manchester completes refurbishment
Oddfellows Hall is the oldest building on the University of Manchester’s new Engineering Campus Development which is currently under construction. Oddfellows Hall is being renovated and extended to provide a heritage focus for the £400m scheme.
The 21,000 sq ft Oddfellows Hall was originally built in 1857 and reconstructed in 1916. The building, on Grosvenor Street in central Manchester, takes its name from the Oddfellows Friendly Society, which is a non-political international fraternity first documented in London in 1730. The society aims to promotes friendliness, benevolence, charity and philanthropy.
Oddfellows Hall has been renovated and now includes a suite of conference rooms, academic workspaces and a restaurant. The project also included landscaping around the building to enhance the setting. When the construction project is completed Oddfellows Hall will be flanked by three new engineering centres.
Manchester Engineering Campus Development is scheduled for completion in 2022. Once complete, the buildings will accommodate student workshops and practical learning spaces for around 7,000 students.
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Birmingham’s Eastside Rooms go OnLine
The new conference and events venue in Birmingham - the eastside rooms - have agreed a partnership with On Event Production Co to provide: ‘OnLine at the eastside rooms’ - an AV, production and technical support for events taking place at the venue.
‘OnLine at the eastside rooms’ will offer every event at the eastside rooms technical and AV support as standard, and with a production company capable of supplementing agency or inhouse corporate teams.
On Productions has been involved with the eastside rooms throughout its build and have inputted into the AV specification of the venue, including its main plenary room: The Affinity Suite.
Guy Eaton, Managing Director at On Event Productions added: “Myself and the team are delighted to be working in partnership with the eastside rooms to grow and develop this exciting new venue together. We have already hit the ground running by giving a significant input into the technical specification of the fit-out of this state-of-the-art conference destination. The venue is set to become one of the most popular event venues in the city and with so many meeting space options to play with, it’s an AV supplier’s dream.”
The eastside rooms together with the new Aloft Hotel Birmingham Eastside launches in early 2021. It is located in the heart of Birmingham’s Eastside Quarter, a short walk from both Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Moor Street Stations and a short drive from the M6 at junction 6.
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Mondrian returning to London
The five-star Curtain Hotel in London closed since this September is due to reopen in spring 2021 as the Mondrian Shoreditch London. Its opening will mark a return of the Mondrian brand name to London. The former Mondrian Sea Containers hotel on London’s South Bank became an independent hotel last year.
The Mondrian Shoreditch London will be fully converted, renovated, and restyled with 120 bedrooms, a new restaurant plus meeting and events space.
Mondrian Shoreditch London will be the sixth hotel in the portfolio, as well as the brand’s European flagship.
The Mondrian brand is a member of the Accor Hotels Group
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Surf Resort and new hotel planned in Southport
Plans have been revealed to build a 250m long beach and surf resort plus a new hotel on the Merseyside coastline in Southport.
‘Southport Cove’ is a £40million seafront project. It would be an all-year-round attraction with a world-class surf wave pool on a 250m stretch of beach. The project will also include a water-based wellness and spa plus a four-star hotel with indoor leisure facilities.
Southport Cove would be sited where the town's lido once stood.
The plans will be submitted as part of Southport's Town Deal bid for part of the government's £3.6bn Towns Fund.
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Holiday Inn offering socially distanced concerts
Holiday Inn London Gatwick – Worth has transformed 50 of its garden view bedrooms into private concert boxes to bring live music to guests in the form of socially distanced performances.
Each event will be performed on stage in the hotel’s spacious, open courtyard, allowing 50 of their bedrooms ‘with a view’ to offer the guests a front row seats from the comfort of their own bedrooms.
Concerts started last Friday and will continue every Friday and Saturday evening through to the end of 2020, with tribute acts from Take That to Elton John performing concerts.
Holiday Inn London Gatwick – Worth is offering ‘Live From Your Bedroom’ packages which include festival style food and drinks.
Holiday Inn London Gatwick – Worth is a ten minute drive from London Gatwick Airport and around the same travelling time from junctions 10 and 10A of the M23 motorway.