A second hotel project has been launched in Wrexham by two businessmen hoping to ride the city’s growing international profile. They have got the green light for a £1.3m apart-hotel in the city’s former registry office.
Building work will start later this month on converting the 18th Century listed building into 13 luxury apartments. Due to open in early 2025, Wrexham’s first apart-hotel will “cater for the discerning tourist market”. The venture was conceived by Dan Gillon and Steven Hesketh, who received planning consent from the county council in early August.
It comes just two months after the pair announced they had bought the Holt Lodge Hotel on the A534 between Wrexham and the village of Holt . READ MORE: Siân Lloyd makes heartfelt statement after her claims about North Wales pub READ MORE: Red Arrows displays and flights over North Wales cancelled Mr Hesketh, a Chester hotelier, and Mr Gillon, co-founder and managing director of Onyx Real Estate Liverpool, are undertaking a major upgrade of Holt Lodge Hotel. In a £250,000-plus investment, all 37 rooms will be refurbished and the owners hope to revitalise a 120-person function suite by working with sports clubs and offering off-site hospitality facilities for pre-match dinners.
Already it’s been rebadged as “Hotel Wrexham”. Mr Gillon said the stardust of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney was a factor in their pair’s latest hotel project. He said: “Our new apart-hotel is a first for Wrexham and we.