It's Grand Central for new flagship Auckland hotel

It's Grand Central for new flagship Auckland hotel
Brent Melville
Singapore’s Hotel Grand Central group will build a new luxury 191-room hotel in central Auckland, following consent to knock down two existing buildings on its 1,000 square metre Wellesley St site.The 12-level hotel, to sit across the road from the New Zealand International Convention Centre, will be the first new build for HGC in New Zealand — and the flagship for its Australasian Grand Chancellor brand.HGC currently operates two hotels in the country — the James Cook in Wellington and the 65-room Grand Chancellor on Hobson S...

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