JD Wetherspoon aims to invest £10m in developing a hotel on a plot of land vacant next to its Crystal Palace pub in Glasgow as well as developing the upper floors to the pub.
The hotel would comprise 73 bedrooms – this is 45 in the extension (currently the vacant plot of land) and 28 above the pub. It would also createc30 new jobs.
It will open four new hotels in a £9m investment in the next ten weeks. M&C understands that JDW is looking at further opportunities for adding accommodation at prospective and existing sites.
The pub operator will run 40 hotels once the new additions have opened in Camborne on 7 July, Tavistock on 21 July, Worcester on 18 August and Barrow on 1 September.
The group said there are no on site or opening dates for the Glasgow development as planning still needs to be obtained.
The company said it had had meetings with the planners and is now progressing its planning application.
Wetherspoon spokesman Eddie Gershon said: “We are keen to open a new hotel alongside and above our pub, The Crystal Palace, in Glasgow. We believe that the hotel would be a great asset to the city and to the pub itself.”
The company currently operates 36 hotels in the UK, including seven in Scotland.
