Dalata Hotel Group Reveals Plans for Four-Star Birmingham Hotel

Date: May 2018

Location: Suffolk Street, adjacent to the Mailbox, Birmingham, UK

Name: Maldron Hotel – four star, opening Q1 2021

The Maldron Limerick

No. of Keys: 330

Developer: McAleer & Rushe

Operator: Dalata to take a 35 year lease on the hotel and run it under their Maldron brand. The construction of the hotel is subject to securing planning permission and consent from Birmingham City Council.

Dalata operates Maldron hotels in Derry, Belfast City Centre and Belfast Airport with a further Maldron hotel under construction in Newcastle and another one planned for Glasgow, as announced December 2017.

Price: £40m

Price per Key: £121,212

THPT Comment: We hear that Dalata also plan a Clayton hotel in Bristol, as a conversion of the listed NatWest Court office building on Broad Street, with 250 rooms to open in 2020, to be developed by Artisan Real Estate.

Dalata now has just over 1,700 rooms in its UK development pipeline on top of the 1,968 rooms that it already owns or leases.

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