Sheffield City Council and development partner Queensberry have unveiled plans for a £30m, 154-bedroom hotel as part of their Heart of the City II masterplan.
The 89,000 sq ft, five-floor hotel is located on Pinstone Street and will see Queensberry redevelop the existing Palatine Chambers and City Mews buildings while keeping the original facade.
Hotelier Radisson Blu is the preferred operator for the site, and parties are working through a hotel management agreement.
A planning application for the scheme is expected to be lodged with the council in the coming weeks.
Queensberry project director Andrew Davison said: “This is major step forward for the city and major step forward for the economy. It’s a new and exciting brand coming to the city, it’s going to create a lot of jobs and other business. It also becomes another great anchor tenant for this project.”
The £480m Heart of the City II masterplan covers 17 acres in Sheffield city centre. The scheme comprises 1.5m sq ft of mixed-use development to be delivered over almost a decade.
Last December, global law firm CMS agreed to take 47,500 sq ft of office space at 1 Charter Square, joining HSBC as a key anchor tenant for the scheme.
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