Description:
A new boutique hotel has opened on the site of Glasgow's first
ever power station. Hotel Indigo cost £11.5 million, will employ 70
staff and is 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 has been converted into a 96 bedroom
hotel, and is likely to be aimed at business travellers. Each room
has 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 opened in April 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.
Complete.