As recently announced, citizenM has not only recently opened its first London hotel at Lavington Street, near the Tate Modern (as reported in H&C News on 11 July – click here ) but has three more in the pipeline including one at Holborn, and another at Trinity Square, EC3.
CitizenM London St Paul’s will anchor a mixed development on the Citicape House site at 61-65 Holborn Viaduct, close to Smithfield Market.
The 246-bedroom hotel will be part of a joint venture redevelopment with site owners CHIL that will comprise basement, ground and lower ground floor levels with eight upper office storeys and ten upper hotel levels.
Not surprisingly at a time when major building projects are in short supply, as are clients that plan further developments, it is attracting fierce competition from a list of bidders that includes leading contractors such as Balfour Beatty, Kier and Skanska.
Construction is due to start in early 2013.