Former Virgin Hotel in Glasgow set to reopen four years after sudden closure

A Glasgow waterfront hotel is preparing to reopen after suddenly closing in 2023.

Building work is continuing at the Virgin Hotel in Clyde Street, a city licensing board meeting heard on Friday.

Work on the 17-storey building is due to be completed in 12 months, a solicitor told the board as he asked for an extension to an alcohol licence.

Councillors granted the venue a request to further extend the provisional alcohol premises licence by 18 months.

A solicitor said work to complete the “fit out of the hotel” is to take a year.

He said issues with the hotel were an “example of what can go wrong will go wrong.”

Councillor Bill Butler asked: “Can you give me a guarantee we won’t be back here in 18 months?”

The solicitor reiterated that it is anticipated that the work would take 12 months.

The Virgin Hotel site was reportedly sold to the Martin Property Group last year.

It was reported that around 130 employees lost their jobs when the 240-bedroom hotel closed just four months after opening.

The building’s previous owner, Lloyds Developments Limited, was put into administration.