M&L Hospitality to build Manchester hotel

SINGAPORE-BASED M&L Hospitality is expanding further into the United Kingdom, with plans for a new hotel complex estimated to cost in excess of £30 million (S$64 million), in the University of Manchester campus.

The plan, according to the investment group which has taken a 125-year lease on the university land, is for a 326-key hotel complex comprising 16 storeys of rooms above three levels of hotel facilities including conference facilities and various F&B concepts.

This will be the only hotel on the main University of Manchester campus. United Kingdom property company Bruntwood will develop the hotel on behalf of M&L Hospitality while Cycas Hospitality, which is M&L's operator for their Stratford City hotels, will manage the business.