Luxury hotel plan for historic Pump House

james73 · Luxury hotel plan for historic Pump House

A HISTORIC building on the banks of the Clyde could be turned into a luxury
hotel and restaurant.

The Pump House, near the SECC in Glasgow, has been run as the museum
of the Maritime Trust since 1999.

In 2010, the Trust will move to a new £74million museum of transport, which
will replace the Transport Museum at Kelvin Hall.

Glasgow Harbour, the organisation behind a multi-million pound riverside
development, wants to buy the Pump House building and turn it into a boutique
hotel and restaurant.

The city council bought the building in 2002 for considerably less than the
market value, as a condition of sale limited its use to a maritime museum.

But this week councillors will be told the previous owner has agreed to lift
the condition, provided they get a share of the purchase price.

Development and regeneration executive director Steve Inch says in a
report: "Glasgow Harbour is willing to invest a considerable sum of money
in the building to bring it back into use as a potential boutique-style hotel
and restaurant."

A Glasgow Harbour spokesman said: "We are in talks with the council over
the building's future use."

The Pump House was built in 1877 to produce power to operate the swing
bridge at Queen's Dock, allowing the Clyde to capitalise on its position as
the world's greatest shipping river.

James H

Stuball

4 room hotel?

james73

Maybe theres an underground section...

James H

cybers

I am wondering WTF is a boutique style hotel ?
Is that where ya catch 40 winks and folk watch ya thru the windae ?

Stuball