Indigo Hotel
Location
Glasgow City Centre, IFSD
Address
75 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7BW
Description
A new boutique hotel is planned for the site of Glasgow's first ever power station. Hotel Indigo will cost £11.5 million, employ 70 staff and be situated in a converted Victorian block in the heart of the city's financial services district.
The listed property was originally owned by the Glasgow Corporation Electricity Company. In the 1890s, the city's first power plant was run from the building, which also had a giant chimney.
Latterly, it was used as the headquarters of Scots telecoms group Thus, which was bought over in 2008 by Cable & Wireless.
The four-storey building is being converted into a 96 bedroom hotel, and is likely to be aimed at business travellers. Each room will have high-speed internet access and oversized beds and pillows.
The hotel is owned by the InterContinental Group, which already operates 7 hotels across the city and employs 2180 people in Scotland.
The boutique hotel is scheduled to open in summer 2010 and will operate as a franchise. It will be run by city-based Chardon Management, one of the UK's leading independent hotel management contract companies.
Cost
£11.5M
Current status
Under construction.
Timescale
Summer 2010
Lead partner
InterContinental Group
Other partners
Chardon Management
Project team
ICA Architects
Contact details
Ian Burleigh, ICA Architects, 01355 578070, design@icaarchitects.com