TheBusinessDesk.com reports that a new £32m five star Hilton is to be constructed near the Leeds Arena, with its developer aiming to make it the premier business and leisure hotel in the city.
The plans were revealed to TheBusinessDesk.com at the MIPIM property conference by Brandon Riley, director of hotels for Wakefield-based GB Group Holdings, who said construction work on the 206-bedroom, 14 storey hotel should be starting this May, with the hotel set to open in summer 2015.
GB Group Holdings has signed an agreement with Hilton Worldwide to develop the hotel on Portland Crescent, close to the new Leeds Arena, Leeds Metropolitan University’s Rose Bowl, and the city’s central business district.
The new Hilton will feature a ‘Sky Bar’, complementing the top floor bar at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel at the city’s Granary Wharf development. Hilton also has a hotel close to Leeds train station.
The hotel has been designed by hotel specialist Dexter Moren Associates and is to be constructed by GB Building Solutions.
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