St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, St Pancras Station, London, England, UK. Photo:Jeff Gilbert
In 1996, following the announcement of the new, international station at St Pancras, London & Continental Railways (the building’s leaseholder) put out a competition in order to select a development team to restore and re-open the building. A consortium of BAA Lynton (British Airport Authority’s commercial property division), Manhattan Loft Corporation (MLC) and Whitbread (franchisee of Marriott Hotels in the UK) won the restoration and refurbishment project in 2002, the winning proposal combining a high quality hotel with loft apartments above. Originally MLC was only responsible for the development of the apartments but following BAA’s sale of its commercial property arm and Whitbread losing its franchisee of Marriott Hotels in theUK, Harry Handelsman, CEO of MLC, made the bold decision to undertake the development of the whole building. Marriott International in the US was approached to manage and operatethe hotel and it was soon decided that it would become one of Renaissance’s flagship hotels as it embodied so many of the brand’s core St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London will formally open on 5th May 2011, exactly 138 years after the Midland Grand Hotel originally opened. It will be the final piece of the St Pancras regeneration project, which has included a £800 million restoration of the Station. The station was re-opened as St Pancras International, by Her Majesty the Queen in November 2007. As the hotel enters a new era the many admirers of arguably Scott’s finest work watch on with both fascination and excitement as this extraordinary building is given the kiss of life. The sixty-six apartments situated on the upper floors of the building were completed last year and are now all occupied. The conversion was received with huge reverence by critics, journalists and owners alike and now the focus is on the hotel.
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Location: St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy / Afripics
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