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M&L unveils its new-build hotel in the Sydney CBD, West Hotel
Render of Singaporean developer M&L's West Hotel in Sydney. Supplied
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Su-Lin Tan
Singapore hotel giant M&L Hospitality, controlled by Singapore's cough family, has unveiled a theme of waratahs and classic elegance at its new-build hotel West Hotel at 65 Sussex Street in the Sydney CBD.
M&L Hospitality, which already owns Australia's biggest hotel, the Hyatt Regency – also at Sussex Street at Darling Harbour – will launch the new "upper scale" hotel in December, after a short year-long construction, led by Multiplex.
The West Hotel would be welcome relief to the hotel room-starved Sydney CBD especially when there hasn't been a new hotel built in the past 15 years, M&L chief executive Neil Maxwell said.
"By all means we will build another hotel, we have now done a few buildings. With all the infrastructure work happening there's just a lot going on in the city," he said.
Interior courtyard at the new West Hotel in Sydney. Supplied
The hotel will have 182 guest rooms including four suites, an internal courtyard, meeting space, restaurant and bar.
The Dining Room by West Hotel will be fine dining but details of the restaurant are yet to be released.
M&L is targeting the "Monday to Thursday" corporate market particularly that of the Barangaroo precinct around the corner, and local retail travellers. The group will name a hotel operator later in the year.
The name "West Hotel" is based on its western Sydney corridor location and hotel rates will likely be in the mid $200 a night range.
Asked why it chose to build a hotel so close to its existing Hyatt Regency, Mr Maxwell said hotel sites in Sydney were rare so they grabbed the partially approved site from developer Alfasi.
M&L now has 1443 hotel rooms across the city, including its newly refurbished Hyatt Regency and the five-star Swissotel on Market Street in the CBD.
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