{"id":700164,"date":"2026-01-16T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700164\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:34:14","slug":"glasgow-virgin-hotel-set-to-reopen-after-sudden-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700164\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow Virgin Hotel set to reopen after sudden closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Building work is continuing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/24782141.takeover-talks-glasgows-virgin-hotel-revealed\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Hotel<\/a> in Clyde Street, Glasgow, a city licensing board meeting heard today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25771907.20-000-acre-estate-scottish-island-sold-despite-local-opposition\/?ref=ed_latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>20,000-acre estate on Scottish island sold despite local opposition<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A solicitor said work to complete the \u201cfit out of the hotel\u201d is to take a year. He said issues with the hotel were an \u201cexample of what can go wrong will go wrong&#8221;, refering to the sudden closure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25769074.demands-perth-hotel-overturned-councillors-not-told-full-facts\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel<\/a> after its previous owner, Lloyds Developments Limited went into administration.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was reported that around 130 employees lost their jobs when the 240-bedroom hotel closed just four months after opening.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Councillor Bill Butler asked: \u201cCan you give me a guarantee we won\u2019t be back here in 18 months&#8221;, to which the solicitor reiterated\u00a0that it is anticipated that work would take 12 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Virgin Hotel site was sold to the Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/property\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Property<\/a> Group last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Building work is continuing at the Virgin Hotel in Clyde Street, Glasgow, a city licensing board meeting heard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-700164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115905512230339056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700164","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=700164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}