Castlegate Premier Inn hotel Dudley delivered
Stoford and Premier Inn, the UK's largest hotel chain, has celebrated the official 'topping out' of a new 63-bedroom Premier Inn hotel and restaurant in Dudley town centre.
To mark the occasion, John Bates, head of acquisitions UK and Ireland for Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants, received an engraved silver trowel from property specialists Stoford at the site of the £3.5 million development at Castlegate Business Park.
The three-storey hotel, built on land owned by the Homes and Communities Agency, will shortly be completed by Anglo Holt Construction and will open in July – creating approximately 25 new jobs and providing a major boost to the local economy.
Mr Bates said: "Premier Inn is one of the UK's top brands and most successful businesses and we are expanding across the country on the back of increasing customer demand.
"We currently have more than 52,000 Premier Inn bedrooms in the UK and we are on track to achieve our target of 75,000 bedrooms by 2018.
"Stoford is delivering a first class development in an ideal location for a new Premier Inn hotel and restaurant with its town centre location and proximity to the Black Country and surrounding countryside.
"This new development in Dudley complements other hotels we are developing in Birmingham and Stourbridge and have recently opened at Redditch and Shrewsbury, further strengthening the employment and visitor economy of the region. I look forward to opening our doors to our Dudley customers this summer."
The hotel is Stoford's second scheme at Castlegate Business Park where it will shortly start development of a 10,000 sq ft building for the West Midlands Probation Service.
Work on the new headquarters for the probation service in the Dudley borough will see more than 50 workers from Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation Trust's district offices move to the building in Castlegate Business Park.
The trust hopes the 10,000 sq ft building, opposite the new Premier Inn hotel, will be finished by autumn this year.
Announcing the scheme last year Ali Bell, a spokesman for the trust, said: "The new Dudley office at Castlegate will offer improved facilities, enabling us to offer much better services to the public and supervision of offenders.
"New group rooms will enable the delivery of programmes and offender group work for the first time in Dudley.
"It will help us in our continuing mission to protect the public and rehabilitate offenders."
