MANCHESTER, England, May 6,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SH Hotels & Resorts announced that
it will open its award-winning Treehouse Hotel in Manchester,
the brand's second UK location, in 2023. Treehouse Hotel
Manchester, owned by a controlled affiliate of Starwood Capital
Group, is being developed in partnership with Property Alliance
Group and will mark the first phase of a £200m redevelopment of the
former Renaissance Hotel on Deansgate.
Treehouse Hotels celebrates the joy of youth, of freedom, of
fun, of dreams, and friends, real and imaginary. In a Treehouse you
leave the everyday and enter a world of your own imagination. The
wondrous, childhood feeling of climbing into a treehouse and making
up your own rules. Designed to appeal to the youthful spirit in all
of us, Treehouse Hotel Manchester will be fun, fresh, and fabulous
-- inspired by life's joys. The hotel is being designed in
collaboration with UK-based 93ft to restore the building,
incorporating an organic aesthetic to create a comfortable oasis
and playful rooms encouraging its guests to relax and enjoy.
"I'm really excited to launch our second Treehouse Hotel in the
UK. Manchester is as much a
destination for travelers as a gathering place for its energetic
local community. Our Treehouse will introduce a new execution of
fun and witty, and provide an imaginative hospitality experience.
As a sustainable brand, we will reuse and repurpose the existing
building. We are thrilled to set roots in the city of Manchester," said Starwood Capital Group
Chairman and CEO Barry
Sternlicht.
Sustainability
True to the mission of its sister
brand 1 Hotels, Treehouse Hotels is rooted in sustainability.
Treehouse Hotel Manchester will bring new life to the building,
incorporating energy and carbon savings along with extensive use of
reclaimed and recycled materials in the construction of the
building and furniture. The hotel will promote biophilia through
the introduction of roof gardens, living green walls and a kitchen
garden harvesting rainwater, with honey produced by the hotel's own
rooftop apiary. The building façade will also feature local
artists' murals as an homage to the city and community.
The City of
Manchester
Located in the lively city centre, close
to Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and
the Manchester Arena, the hotel will bring fun adventure, escapism
and contemporary design to guests and the local community
alike.
The Details
Guests will enter the 216-room hotel
beneath a treehouse canopy and be drawn down a path with an
abundance of dappled light and the natural scent of pitch pine,
reminiscent of entering a secret forest. Thoughtful design details
allow travelers to share ideas, stories, and connect with the local
community including hopscotch carpets; stepping-stones in lift
lobbies; custom-designed space hoppers in the hotel gym, and an
invitation for visitors to carve their stories into a central
living wooden art piece that will grow over time.
Dining & Stargazing
Treehouse Hotel Manchester
will introduce a number of unique new dining experiences to the
area, including a top floor restaurant and bar with uninterrupted
views of the city, and a crowning rooftop venue.
About SH Hotels & Resorts
SH Hotels & Resorts,
an affiliate of global private investment firm Starwood Capital
Group, is a hotel brand management company that operates 1 Hotels,
a mission-driven luxury lifestyle brand that launched in 2015 with
properties in South
Beach, Manhattan, Brooklyn, West
Hollywood and Haitang Bay with projects under
development in San
Francisco, Nashville, Sunnyvale, Hanalei
Bay, Cabo San
Lucas, Paris, Toronto and Melbourne. SH Hotels
& Resorts also operates Treehouse Hotel, a sister to the 1
Hotels brand, and Baccarat Hotels Resorts, a luxury brand that
debuted its flagship property in March 2015 in New
York, with projects under development
in Doha and Bordeaux. SH Hotels & Resorts
properties are among the first hotels in the world to
become Sharecare Health Security VERIFIED® with Forbes
Travel Guide. The comprehensive facility verification helps
ensure that guests and travel planners can book with confidence at
properties that have appropriate health safety procedures in
place. Leveraging its marketing, design, operational and
technological expertise, SH Hotels & Resorts is the force
behind some of the most groundbreaking and forward-thinking hotel
brands in the world—a brand, a cause, and a platform for
change.
About Starwood Capital Group
Starwood Capital Group is
a private investment firm with a core focus on global real estate,
energy infrastructure and oil & gas. The Firm and its
affiliates maintain 16 offices in seven countries around the world,
and currently have approximately 4,000 employees. Since its
inception in 1991, Starwood Capital Group has raised over
$55 billion of equity capital, and
currently has in excess of $75
billion of assets under management. Through a series of
comingled opportunity funds and Starwood Real Estate Income Trust,
Inc. (SREIT), a non-listed REIT, the Firm has invested in virtually
every category of real estate on a global basis, opportunistically
shifting asset classes, geographies and positions in the capital
stack as it perceives risk/reward dynamics to be evolving. Starwood
Capital also manages Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), the
largest commercial mortgage real estate investment trust in
the United States, which has
successfully deployed over $63
billion of capital since inception and manages a portfolio
of over $17 billion across debt and
equity investments. Over the past 29 years, Starwood Capital
Group and its affiliates have successfully executed an investment
strategy that involves building enterprises in both the private and
public markets. Additional information can be found at
starwoodcapital.com.
About Property Alliance Group
Property Alliance
Group is a leading Manchester-based property development and
investment company working across the hotel, residential,
commercial and industrial sectors. With a strong track record,
Alliance has recently celebrated 30 years in business and has an
extensive portfolio including AXIS - an iconic, award-winning
residential building completed in 2020. Alliance currently holds
the award for 'Residential developer of the year' presented at the
North West Business Insider awards 2020. Alliance's latest
Manchester schemes have a total
gross development value (GDV) of just under £400m and
include 'Oxygen' a residential development near Piccadilly,
and new build hotels at No 3, St Peter's Square, and 55
Portland Street, which will complete towards the end of 2021.
Alliance has also expanded into other regions with assets now in
Leeds, Chester, Nottingham and Birmingham. Further
companies that sit within the group include Alliance Investments
(residential property sales), Alliance City Living (residential
lettings and management), Specwall (advanced wall systems), and The
Intelligent Building Group (a new prop tech business established to
deliver solutions which help to address environmental, social and
governance (ESG) factors as well as wider net zero targets through
technology and the Internet of Things). Alliance is a partner of
the We love Mcr Charity and proud supporter of the Teenage
Cancer Trust and Ronald McDonald House Charities Manchester. It
also sponsored the landmark statue of Manchester icon Emmeline Pankhurst which was unveiled in
December 2018 in St Peter's Square to mark the 100th
anniversary of women's suffrage in Britain.
About 93ft
93ft is an independent award-winning design
studio of creatives and makers based in Sheffield, UK that specializes in interior
design and architecture, and brand & digital
development. Additionally, 93ft has an in-house maker workshop
that specialises in the reuse and repurposing of materials,
objects, and furniture.
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