Building work is continuing at the Virgin Hotel in Clyde Street, Glasgow, a city licensing board meeting heard today.
Work on the 17 storey building is due to be completed within 12 months, a solicitor told the board as he asked for an extension to an alcohol licence. Councillors granted the venue a request to further extend the provisional alcohol premises licence by 18 months.
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A solicitor said work to complete the “fit out of the hotel” is to take a year. He said issues with the hotel were an “example of what can go wrong will go wrong”, refering to the sudden closure of the hotel after its previous owner, Lloyds Developments Limited went into administration.
It was reported that around 130 employees lost their jobs when the 240-bedroom hotel closed just four months after opening.
Councillor Bill Butler asked: “Can you give me a guarantee we won’t be back here in 18 months”, to which the solicitor reiterated that it is anticipated that work would take 12 months.
The Virgin Hotel site was sold to the Martin Property Group last year.