Hopefully this work, plus that on the Green, will keep our feisty local rat population down.
According to essential reading Builders Merchants News, the building's roof will be relpaced by a curved glass one, and be an 11 floor hotel with 322 rooms.
When it opened, in 1923, the original cinema seated 2,300 people but it was badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War and did not re-open until 1955, under the new name ‘Gaumont Theatre’. It then became the Odeon cinema, Top Rank Bingo Club and most recently Mecca Bingo Hall. It has sat empty since 2001 when Mecca moved out.
Will the Cultural hub /Antipodean watering hole next door fit in with the new look boutique Green or is this the death knell for the second home of Shepherds Bush's flip flop winter wearing community?
ReplyDeleteI hadn't seen the on-street urinal open before. Weird. Doubt that will go down well with guests returning from their West End shows or wherever they've been in London...
ReplyDeleteoh I don't know, always nice to have a quick pee before checking in! Perhaps the top-hatted doorman will intervene in the fights spilling out of the next door Walkabout so they don't mean the guests scuff their shoes.
ReplyDeleteApparently this will be a 4* hotel. I wish the owners good luck with that, what with the drunken Australians causing all sorts of madness next door at the Walkabout...
ReplyDeleteNot wishing to be contrary here but apart from a small foot note on a random builder's merchants website, what evidence is there that work will actually "start next month"?
ReplyDeleteAlso, does next month mean as early as tomorrow?!
It will be nice to see some use being made of the building, whatever it is and whenever they start work.
ReplyDeleteThe plans look good...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bfls-london.com/en/shepherds-bush-pavilion-hotel/
This is exactly what the Bush needs-I am sure the hotel will flourish if managed properly.( I think its a Malaysian hotel chain)
ReplyDeleteImportantly preserving a beautiful unique characterful building facade. I am sure the patrons of the hotel will enjoy popping next door to sample some Amber nectar
Kosmopolito Hotels (Hong Kong outfit) hope to open the Hotel Dorsett Regency in 2014.
ReplyDeleteFantastic. Anything that rids Shepherds Bush of the ever decreasing population of numb-skulled Australians who have turned that part of the Bush into a stinking urinal should be warmly welcomed.
ReplyDeleteStrewth - they won't be allowed to set up the smokers' pen outside either which is always a gem of an attraction. LBHF will have to get all that filthy chewing gum off the pavement along there too. They (Thames Water?) might even fix the blocked drain in Rockwood Place! Twill be wondrous!
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