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 early 2011 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.
Under construction.