Hotel Construction Company set to build on strong 2011 results

The construction arm of the McAleer & Rushe Group will reveal increased turnover of £88.2m, in accounts soon to be filed for the year to 31 March 2011. The company, with offices in London, Belfast and Cookstown, will also report a four-fold increase in operating profits to over £3.2m and a 15% increase in staffing [...]

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McAleer & Rushe notches up two further awards for the W Hotel

McAleer & Rushe has garnered two further awards for the stylish W Hotel it developed and built on London’s Leicester Square. On Tuesday night, London’s exclusive Grosvenor House hotel was the glamorous backdrop to design magazine FX’s International Awards. The W Hotel won both the Hotel Award and the Lighting Design Award. It follows last [...]

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Northern Irish Company Returns Famous Swiss Landmark To Leicester Square

One of London’s best-loved landmarks has been returned to Leicester Square by McAleer & Rushe, reviving a sight and sound that has given pleasure to millions of Londoners and visitors. The Glockenspiel that rang out from the corner of the Swiss Centre has been returned by the Cookstown-based developer and contractor, as a redesigned free-standing [...]

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McAleer & Rushe Announces Completion Of Sale Of £200m W Hotel

McAleer & Rushe today confirmed the completion of the sale of its W Hotel development on Leicester Square to Qatari investor Al Faisal Holding for just under £200m. The Northern Irish company developed and built the stylish 192-bedroom Starwood-operated hotel scheme which also includes 11 luxury flats and a 35,000 sq ft M&M’s store. McAleer [...]

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Spice Market At McAleer & Rushe’s W Hotel Wins Restaurant Interior Design Of The Year Award

Spice Market London at the W Hotel London on Leicester Square won the Restaurant Interior Design of the Year Award at the European Hotel Design Awards held last night at the Park Plaza West Minster Bridge, London. This is the second major award Northern Irish developer McAleer & Rushe has garnered for the stylish Leicester [...]

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New Aloft Hotel Sees McAleer & Rushe Deliver 12,000 Rooms

Northern Irish developer and contractor McAleer & Rushe has completed its second UK hotel for Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The first was the emphatically successful W Hotel at Leicester Square which has become the location of choice for celebrities. There was more glamour on Tuesday with the launch party for The Aloft London Excel, at [...]

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The ‘Quays’ are Handed Over at New Jurys Inn Gateshead

McAleer & Rushe have completed the 203 bedroom four storey waterfront Jurys Inn on the Gateshead Quayside on time and on budget. The hotel opened to the public with a Grand Launch event on Thursday 25 August 2011 which was attended by a variety of guests including the Gateshead Mayor, Miss Newcastle Hannah Gray and [...]

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McAleer & Rushe Sell £200m W Hotel To Qatari Investor

In one of the most high profile hotel transactions of the year McAleer & Rushe has exchanged contracts to sell its glamorous W London-Leicester Square hotel-led mixed use scheme to a Qatari-based investor for close to £200m. The purchase price reflects a net initial yield of close to 4%. The stylish 192-bed W London is [...]

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Maldron Opens First UK Hotel At Rush’s Cardiff Scheme

Irish hotelier Maldron Hotels has opened its first hotel in the UK in Cardiff, at a 216-bed scheme developed by Rush Developments. Maldron is Ireland’s largest hotel group. It opened the new 12-storey superior three-star Maldron Hotel on the site of the former Central Hotel by the central railway station on May 16. It has [...]

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