Contractor GMI will start work in the next few weeks on a £60m boutique hotel scheme near Manchester Airport after planners gave the project the green light.
The 154-bedroom Dakota hotel will be located off Enterprise Way on a three-acre plot at Mix Manchester is expected to inject approximately £12m per annum to the local economy.
Designed by KPP Architects, the new Dakota Hotel will also include a premium bar and brasserie.
The 80,000 sq ft hotel will be the second in Manchester for Dakota Hotels, complementing its city centre hotel on Ducie Street.
Andrew Ovenstone, managing director of Dakota Hotels, said: “This is an exceptional location for the latest hotel in our northern portfolio. Not only is it strategically placed next to one of the busiest airports in the world, but it will be central to the development coming forward across the Mix Manchester site.”
The Mix Manchester Strategic Regeneration Framework is currently out for public consultation and will see the creation of the UK’s first airport-based science, innovation, and manufacturing campus, comprising 2 million sq ft of space.
The JV partnership behind Mix Manchester comprises Columbia Threadneedle Real Estate, Manchester Airports Group, Beijing Construction Engineering Group International, and Greater Manchester Pension Fund.
The site is ‘shovel-ready’, with £30m of joint venture capital already invested in highways and utilities infrastructure, including a new pedestrian bridge linking to the main airport site.
