6 new hotels that will change the face of Glasgow
Some of the major hotel developments planned for Glasgow.
Glasgow’s hotel sector is experiencing a period of significant development, fuelled by new hotel openings and the growing trend of repurposing historic buildings for hospitality use.
A number of historic and previously underutilised buildings, including the Egyptian Halls and the former Watt Brothers department store, are planned to be redeveloped into hotels. These projects demonstrate how the preservation of Glasgow’s architectural heritage can go hand in hand with urban regeneration.
Here are six new hotels that will change the face of Glasgow.
Clyde Gateway is taking a proposed 140-room hotel development in Glasgow’s east end to the UK investment market as it seeks a development and operating partner to deliver the next major phase of Dalmarnock’s regeneration.
Clyde Gateway
Plans have been lodged to transform one of Sauchiehall Street’s best-known former department stores into a new 144-bedroom hotel with a bar, restaurant and rooftop terrace. The landmark former C&A building at 218–224 Sauchiehall Street, which was later occupied by Dunnes Stores, has been empty since 2017. A full planning application has now been validated by Glasgow City Council for the conversion of the prominent Art Deco building into a hotel and aparthotel with restaurant and bar facilities.
HAUS Collective
CDLH Leisure Hospitality & Healthcare Surveyors have marketed plans for the building that once contained the Pizza Hut unit on four corners at Argyle Street and Jamaica Street. The proposals would see 170 bedrooms, with existing development proposals including designs for a 139‑room (537‑bed) hostel.
CDLH Leisure
SWG3, in partnership with Stallan-Brand, have developed plans for an ambitious new multi-purpose hotel adjacent to the SWG3 cultural campus on Glasgow’s Clydeside. The proposal would see a world class 142-bedroom hotel built at the corner of Eastvale Place featuring two restaurants, two bars, co-working spaces, a gym, a movement studio, and a rooftop terrace amplifying the local hospitality, tourism, and cultural scenes while fostering entrepreneurial and international business opportunities.
Stallan-Brand
The Egyptian Halls on Union Street have stood largely empty for decades, with scaffolding covering Alexander “Greek” Thomson’s landmark building for more than 15 years. Ediston wants to convert the upper floors of the Egyptian Halls into a hotel, with leisure uses on the lower levels.
Glasgow City Council
Glasgow’s former Watt Brothers department store is set for a bold transformation and a vibrant new chapter. This historic building will be reinvented as a 100-bed lifestyle hotel with a design focused on heritage and guest experience. An Application for Planning has been submitted for the design proposals to re-use and adapt this important example of Glasgow's built heritage.
ICA