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06/02/2019
Leicester's £50m Project Medius Takes Shape
A £50 million regeneration scheme in Leicester is taking shape as Morgan Sindall celebrates a number of key construction milestones.
Project Medius is a mixed-use development in Leicester city centre featuring two new hotels, 35,000 sq ft of space in a new five-storey office, a new public realm area called Great Central Square and a major highways and traffic management scheme.
The concrete frame on the 10-storey Novotel hotel has been completed, with work on the outside façade cladding and internal fit out of the hotel underway. When complete, the hotel will offer 154 bedrooms, including executive rooms and suites, a gym, banqueting facilities, meeting rooms and a ground floor feature bar and restaurant.
Internal fit out works are also progressing on the office block.
The Charles Street Buildings (CSB) development will also feature the six-storey Aparthotel Adagio hotel.
Richard Frape, Project Director at Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, said: "We're incredibly pleased to reach this important milestone as we move ever closer to delivering this exciting project for the people of Leicester.
"Project Medius is set to play a central role in revitalising this area of the city. We look forward to continuing our collaborative efforts with everyone involved over the coming months as we deliver this once in a generation scheme."
Once complete, this scheme will help create an attractive new gateway linking the city centre to the Waterside area
Joseph Murphy, Director, at CSB, commented: "The progress that has been in made in constructing two new hotels, a new office block and new public realm in Leicester City Centre is very pleasing. Our ambitious regeneration plans, along with those of Leicester City Council, in this area are now having an impact on Leicester's sky line and street scene.
"Completion of superstructure works for the Novotel and Adagio marks the next phase of tangible delivery of this transformative development and starts the countdown to the arrival of exciting new hotels, along with work and leisure facilities at No1 Great Central Square and Leicester Central."
Construction work is expected to be complete by the end of 2019.
(CM/JG)
Project Medius is a mixed-use development in Leicester city centre featuring two new hotels, 35,000 sq ft of space in a new five-storey office, a new public realm area called Great Central Square and a major highways and traffic management scheme.
The concrete frame on the 10-storey Novotel hotel has been completed, with work on the outside façade cladding and internal fit out of the hotel underway. When complete, the hotel will offer 154 bedrooms, including executive rooms and suites, a gym, banqueting facilities, meeting rooms and a ground floor feature bar and restaurant.
Internal fit out works are also progressing on the office block.
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The Charles Street Buildings (CSB) development will also feature the six-storey Aparthotel Adagio hotel.
Richard Frape, Project Director at Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, said: "We're incredibly pleased to reach this important milestone as we move ever closer to delivering this exciting project for the people of Leicester.
"Project Medius is set to play a central role in revitalising this area of the city. We look forward to continuing our collaborative efforts with everyone involved over the coming months as we deliver this once in a generation scheme."
Once complete, this scheme will help create an attractive new gateway linking the city centre to the Waterside area
Joseph Murphy, Director, at CSB, commented: "The progress that has been in made in constructing two new hotels, a new office block and new public realm in Leicester City Centre is very pleasing. Our ambitious regeneration plans, along with those of Leicester City Council, in this area are now having an impact on Leicester's sky line and street scene.
"Completion of superstructure works for the Novotel and Adagio marks the next phase of tangible delivery of this transformative development and starts the countdown to the arrival of exciting new hotels, along with work and leisure facilities at No1 Great Central Square and Leicester Central."
Construction work is expected to be complete by the end of 2019.
(CM/JG)
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