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City Centre set for boost with new hotel and improved car park
A MULTI–MILLION pound package of improvements is being proposed that would give a massive boost to the regeneration of the city centre while bringing in significant annual income for Leicester City Council. The city council wants to invest £10million in a scheme that would allow it to secure a 125-year lease on Haymarket House – the vacant building above the Haymarket Shopping Centre – so that it can be redeveloped as a 67-bed Travelodge hotel. The scheme would also fund improvements to the under-used Haymarket car park and pay for two new lifts that would serve the new hotel, the car park and the recently-refurbished Haymarket Theatre.
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RG+P IS AJ100 NEW MEMBER OF THE YEAR
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY Team rg+p celebrate their New Member of the practice, rg+p has been Year Award at the Tower of London (l-r): announced as the 2018 Melvyn King, Rob Woolston, James Badley, ‘New Member of the Victoria Torres and Grant Giblett. Year’ in the architectural industry’s prestigious AJ100 celebrations. Compiled annually since 1995 by the industry’s leading magazine, Architect’s Journal, the AJ100 is a definitive list of the UK’s most successful and innovative firms. Practices which had secured a place within the top 100 were invited to a presentation evening at the Tower of London last week (13th June 2018) to discover their final rankings as well as the award winners. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 ...>
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