PUB building becomes hotels – Aftonbladet

PUB building becomes hotels – Aftonbladet

Now the rumor is confirmed – the venerable PUB building on Queen Street in Stockholm becomes hotels.

Just shops on the ground floor remains.

is the Scandic hotel chain to build on.

– I feel a great responsibility. Pub belongs not only to the owners Axfast without all Stockholm, says Scandic’s CEO Frank Fisker.

2013 bought Antonia Ax: son Johnson’s real estate AxFast PUB building of the then owner Atrium Ljungberg 980 million.

Quickly started to go rumors that the PUB building would be built into a hotel on it so attractive position at the Haymarket / Queen Street.

So it also becomes , confirmed at a press conference in PUB building today, Wednesday 21 January.

The top two floors of the department store built into a hotel with 400 rooms.

Shops remain

Stores will continue to only be on the ground floor.

– We will have trade remain. Queen Street is the best commercial street in the entire Stockholm, and we do not spend commerce in such a situation, the property manager Jan Henriksson told Fastighetsvärlden.

– We want to do something that is good for both the neighborhood and the city.

Hotels surface is nearly 16, 500 square meters, which should be enough for 400 rooms plus 3000 square meters of restaurants and venues where redevelopment is completed sometime in 2016.

Beauty Council has criticized the redevelopment of the historic department store that has existed since 1925 and can not be celebrating the 100th anniversary of its original form.

– What we are critical of the changes in the ground floor of this beautiful art deco house where the idea is that it should be very much glass instead of the heavier red granite, explained Henrik Nerlund, Permanent Secretary at the beauty Council, the SVT ABC when the plans began to be known.

Erik Lindvall, CEO of AxFast, says of the new hotel, which will be called Scandic Haymarket, and its future role of central Stockholm:

– The area between Norrmalm and City West is about to merge and create the feeling of a larger and more vibrant inner city. Along with Scandic, we can refine this field further and contribute to a more vibrant neighborhood.