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Malmaison Hotel du Vin Group has signed a development agreement to add a second Edinburgh location to its collection of boutique hotels.
The redevelopment of the Grade I-listed Buchan House in St. Andrew Square was announced following the agreement with S Harrison Developments and work will begin inside the first half of 2018.
Malmaison will restore the building’s period features and inject its own design style to make Buchan House creating a hotel offering within the famous Georgian architecture of Edinburgh’s New Town.
It is estimated that the development will create approximately 50 new jobs. Offering 72 luxury bedrooms and suites, the new hotel will also include the Chez Mal Bar and Brasserie.
The new hotel will add to the Malmaison Edinburgh Leith – the first ever Malmaison to open, in 1994 and which occupies the site of a former ‘house of ill-repute’. It also marks the latest development in a period of significant growth and investment for the brand.
This includes plans to introduce Malmaison to Bournemouth and York, as well as the continued roll-out of its contemporary Chez Mal bar and brasserie and its ‘Work + Play’ meeting and events concept.
Guus Bakker, chief executive at Malmaison Hotel du Vin, said: “Edinburgh is a much loved global destination for tourists and businesses alike, and Malmaison is a great fit for the City and its visitors. We are delighted to be complementing our very first hotel, in Leith, with a great venue for visitors to the city centre.”
