Stunning images have been released showing how a £50m skyscraping structure would look as part of developers’ city centre plans.
Gainford Group last year unveiled plans to create what could become the region’s tallest building at the site of the former Premier Inn on New Bridge Street, Newcastle. The Chester-le-Street company, which owns bars, hotels and restaurants in the city including the Vermont Hotel, Aveika, Livello and the County Hotel, snapped up the former hotel in 2019, and started plotting a grand transformation of the site.
Following a pandemic pause its original plans to remodel the hotel have been completely redrawn, to envisage a 37-storey tower combining a five star hotel, private residential apartments, a conference centre and a fitness and health club, along with a number of bars and restaurants. The company says the mixed-use development has the potential to become a new gateway into Newcastle city centre that could create as many as 500 jobs, including construction jobs and roles needed once it is completed.
