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Willmott Dixon secures £14m Aldgate hotel project

Willmott Dixon has secured a deal with £14m to build Dorsett City hotel on the former site of The Matrix building in Aldgate.

This will be the first time the construction firm has worked with Dorsett Hospitality International, which operates 22 hotels around the world, with one other in London.

The contractor will start work next month to build the 13 storey complex next to Aldgate tube station and the 18th century St Botolph Church.

The project, which is due to be to complete in December 2016, will provide 270 bedrooms along with a restaurant, fitness centre and 1,600 sq ft of meeting areas for the business community.

Roger Forsdyke, managing director at Willmott Dixon’s Cobham office said, “This is a really interesting office to hotel conversion right in the heart of The City of London, providing new capacity in this fast growing part of London.

“Importantly, it plays to our strengths and know-how of working on tight, constrained sites in urban locations, as well as our record for working in historic parts of London on landmark buildings.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .