The 12-storey high hotel is being built on the last remaining plot on the Sovereign Square development site, next to Leeds railway station.
GMI has a 拢39.6m construction contract with Marrico Asset Management and Helios Development.
On completion in 2024, the 305-bedroom hotel will be operated by Interstate Group under the Hyatt brand.
The development is funded by Abrdn/UK Commercial Property REIT. It has been designed by the Leeds studio of DLA Architecture, taking cues from surrounding architecture and Leeds鈥� merchandising and textile history.
The hotel鈥檚 fa莽ade will be faced in two types of brick, a terracotta red and light beige, with detailing around the recessed double/triple height window bays. The ground floor frontages will be behind a colonnade, with recessed detailing around the arch-heads and down the columns, with a glazed frontage behind.
RBA is cost consultants and project monitor, CSD is M&E consultant, Curtins is structural engineer, Quod is planning consultant and Re-form is the landscape architect on the project.
GMI commercial director Chris Weathers said: 鈥淪overeign Square has become a landmark in the heart of the city, being the first new public space to have been developed in Leeds for more than a decade.
鈥淭his striking hotel is the last piece in the development鈥檚 jigsaw in what has become one of the most high-profile, sought-after destinations in the city. It will complete the extensive regeneration of the area and further enhance the other adjacent developments and public green space.鈥�
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