Construction on the £25.5 million Motel One in Manchester’s Piccadilly area is set to start.
The project is for a 14-storey hotel with 330 bedrooms: the ground floor of the 105,000 sq ft scheme will include hotel reception, a restaurant and a bar.
Russells Construction has been appointed to the 20-month building programme, with the hotel expected to open in the summer of 2015.
Designed by Manchester architect Hodder and Partners, the façade will comprise large floor-to-ceiling glazed panels for each bedroom, and the exterior will be finished in a stone coloured smoothed concrete.
Russells Director Gareth Russell said: “The Manchester Motel One will be our largest hotel scheme to date and follows the successful delivery of a number of developments across the country. We’ve established a reputation not only for delivery of hotel schemes, but also as experts in dealing with tight sites in constrained city centre locations. Our major projects team has developed a methodology and a number of supplier partnerships which create genuine cost and programme savings for our clients.”