£20m hotel plan for Robertson’s

Work on a new £20 million hotel and restaurant in Dundee city centre is due to start early next year.

Structured House Group has revealed more details about its plans to convert the former Robertson’s Furniture Store on Barrack Street.

The project will create a six-storey hotel – with 115 bedrooms – which will be set back from the retained tiled facade.

There will also be a separate six-storey hotel building to the west with another 100 bedrooms.

Craig Inglis, chief executive of Structured House Group, said: “We are progressing with our plans to invest £20m on the site of the former Robertson’s furniture store on Barrack Street since receiving planning permission early this year.

“Dundee is a thriving city and with the opening of the V&A we expect our new hotel and restaurant to be a welcome addition to what the city has to offer.”

Mr Inglis said the premises will operate as a BOHO hotel – the first of its kind in the UK.

BOHO is the property management arm of the company, which retains ownership of its buildings and manages them in-house.

He said: “We have chosen Dundee to be the site of our first BOHO in the UK with many more to follow.

“It will be operating as one hotel, together with our licensed ground-floor restaurant.”