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Liverpool Drugstore to become a Hotel
The Gostin's Building is a Liverpool landmark and now apprLiverpool Drugstore to become a Hoteloval has just been granted to convert it into a hotel.
Gostin's Building was built for Ayrton Saunders and Co, a drugstore wholesaler who occupied it until the 1990s when it became a furniture store and warehouse.
New owners, the Fattal Group, have been given the green light to convert the building into a 207-bedroom NYX by Leonardo Hotel – the group’s "lifestyle concept" hotel brand. The new hotel will also include a two-storey rooftop extension
The Gostin's Building is located within Liverpool's World Heritage Site and the Duke Street Conservation Area. It is also part of the Liverpool One development.
NYX by Leonardo Hotel will become the fourth hotel in the group joining the former 201-bedroom Grange Holborn which relaunched in May plus a planned new build 261-bedroom NYX in Birmingham and a conversion of a listed building adjacent to the Edinburgh Jurys Inn.
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Countrywide Hotels expanding
Countrywide Hotels Group has just announced that it is taking over the operation of the Festival Hotel Group. The nine Festival Hotel properties will fall under the Countrywide Hotels umbrella as independently branded hotels.
The hotels, with a total of 401 bedrooms, are primarily located in the Midlands and North England. The portfolio includes:
Allerton Court Hotel in Northallerton
The Bridge Hotel and Spa in Wetherby
Comfort Inn Sunderland
Crab Manor & Lobster Restaurant in Thirsk
Hallgarth The Manor House in Durham
The New Hobbit Halifax
Three Ways House Hotel Chipping Campden
Wroxton House Hotel Banbury