{"id":1133509,"date":"2026-08-06T08:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133509\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:42:33","slug":"co-tyrone-construction-group-starts-work-on-new-95m-office-to-hotel-project-in-edinburgh-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1133509\/","title":{"rendered":"Co Tyrone construction group starts work on new \u00a395m office-to-hotel project in Edinburgh \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Co Tyrone construction group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/mcaleer-and-rushe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/mcaleer-and-rushe\/\">McAleer &amp; Rushe<\/a> has commenced work on a new \u00a395 million hotel development in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/edinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/edinburgh\/\">Edinburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The new project at 60 Morrison Street will see the Cookstown-based developer transform an office building into a new 256-bedroom four-star Clayton Hotel leased to the group\u2019s longstanding business partner Dalata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Previously home to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and later Aberdeen Group, the building is located in Edinburgh\u2019s Exchange District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McAleer &amp; Rushe has confirmed its development arm MRP has secured funding with AIB to allow the project to commence.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/business\/live-updates-john-odowd-to-make-announcement-on-controversial-ni-pub-and-restaurant-rates-GDX466VWSJBAZOWF7M7GWK7HCM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Reprieve for Northern Ireland pubs and restaurants as John O&#x2019;Dowd announces rates U-turn\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786005751_936_AGTK7FUKOFHIPAKDUHZTMP7GLA.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/business\/co-tyrone-construction-group-starts-work-on-new-95m-office-to-hotel-project-in-edinburgh-HAYLG7JBP5HJFAUDKZDS7PQ5FE\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Co Tyrone construction group starts work on new &#xA3;95m office-to-hotel project in Edinburgh\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CNVPBJUDKZF73A7DW5VGX5N3IM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Co Tyrone group\u2019s contractor arm will carry out the work in the six-storey office building, which will see it the structure retained and stripped back to its frame before the addition of three new storeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The result will be a contemporary nine-storey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/tags\/hotel\/\">hotel<\/a> complete with restaurant, bar, gym and business facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe commencement of construction, alongside the support of Dalata as operator and AIB as funding partner, represents an important step forward for this development,\u201d said MRP development director Anugus Monteith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEdinburgh continues to demonstrate strong fundamentals as a hotel market, underpinned by a vibrant tourism sector, a growing conference market and a resilient business economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mark Diamond, a senior director at McAleer &amp; Rushe, said: \u201cBuilding on our extensive experience in delivering high-quality hotel developments and complex city-centre regeneration projects, this project demonstrates how existing buildings can be successfully repurposed to create modern, sustainable developments that meet changing market needs supporting the continued regeneration of city centres.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co Tyrone construction group McAleer &amp; Rushe has commenced work on a new \u00a395 million hotel development in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1133510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,12495,1102,4884,24847,308445,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1133509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-development","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-hotel","tag-mcaleer-and-rushe","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117047680905668749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}