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Inside ‘secret' plans to turn iconic Glasgow building into ‘one of Europe's finest hotels'
It's one of Glasgow's biggest American-Classical-style commercial buildings
UNDER WRAPS Inside 'secret' plans to turn iconic Glasgow building into 'one of Europe's finest hotels'
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PLANS are in progress to transform an iconic Glasgow building into one of Europe's "finest" hotels.
The B-listed 95 Bothwell Street building in the city centre is understood to be mostly empty.
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Plans have been lodged with Glasgow City Council to transform 95 Bothwell Street
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It's one of Glasgow's biggest American Classical-style commercial buildings.
Proposals to turn it into a 235-room hotel have been submitted to the council.
But details about the hotel company eyeing to take over the building have been kept under wraps.
A statement about the proposed design read: 'The proposed confidential hotel operator is particularly excited about the potential provided by the building to create a best-in-class hotel of distinction, which they anticipate will be one of the finest in their operator's European portfolio.
'The listed building is soon to become entirely unoccupied. The commercial office use for which the building was built and designed is no longer viable.
"The building has early indications of corrosion of the structural steel frame, which needs to be addressed to prevent damage to the significant external masonry façade.
'The proposed development is conservation-led and will integrate and repurpose the significant parts of the listed building into the new hotel use, whilst retaining its external appearance and presence within the street.'
HFD Property Group Limited has lodged a planning permission request to alter the use of the building from 'offices at upper floors and restaurant/cafe and retail on ground floor to hotel".
The proposals also include constructing a two-storey roof extension.
Glasgow City Council is considering the application.
