Top hotel will be part of £30m waterfront scheme
Apr 5 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post
THE world-renowned Ramada Plaza hotel brand is coming to Southport as part of a £30m waterfront development.
The 133-bed four-star hotel is currently under construction and will feature bars, restaurants, and a casino, together with extensive meeting facilities that will complement the newly-extended and refurbished Floral Hall conference centre.
Ramada hotels are located in many of the world’s top business and leisure destinations and are part of Wyndham, one of the world’s largest hospitality groups.
Chief executive of Sefton Council, Graham Haywood, who made the Ramada announcement via a webcast on the council’s website yesterday, said: “Southport is an ever- expanding force in the business tourism sector and this new hotel and the associated conference facilities will be a massive boost for the town.
“The whole town has embraced the improvements and developments over the past few years with extensive retail and leisure facilities, redeveloped streets and buildings, new accommodation and attractions including the new Dunes Splash World water park.
“There are even more exciting times ahead with the recent announcement of a blue-chip developer for the former Pleasureland site which is likely to generate even more prosperity for the town.
“It is easy to see why our long-term planning has attracted such big-name operators to Southport.”
Neptune Developments announced it has agreed a deal that will see the New World Group operating the luxury four-star hotel on behalf of the investor, Even Group.
Steve Parry, managing director of Neptune Developments, said: “The hotel will be a major boost to Southport as a leisure and tourism destination, and the quality of the waterfront scheme and the facilities that it offers will help to re-establish Southport as a high-quality destination.
“The impact of the waterfront, together with the extension and refurbishment of the Floral Hall Theatre and Conference Centre will enable Southport to appeal to a much broader market for conferences and events and this will have significant impact on the Southport economy as a whole.”
Nick Lebetkin, managing director of Even Group, said: “We are genuinely excited by this project, which we feel will add significant value to Southport’s offer as a classic resort.”
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Andrew Pyle, operations director of the New World Group, commented: “The whole team at New World are very excited to be working on this prestigious hotel in such a great location.”
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