SLEEPERZ Hotels has become the latest accommodation provider to join Dundee's £1 billion Waterfront development.
The budget operator has announced plans to open a 120-bedroom hotel in the concourse above the city's railway station, which is being redeveloped in a £22 million project.
It will be the fourth hotel Sleeperz has opened in the UK since launching its first in Cardiff in 2008.
Site preparation work has started on the Dundee station redevelopment. Dundee City Council will invest £4.5m to fit out the hotel's interior and lease the premises to the operator.
Sleeperz Hotel Dundee, which will employ 30 staff, is scheduled to open in autumn 2016. It will be located close to the new V&A museum, also due to open that year, which will form the centre-piece of the Waterfront redevelopment.
David Myers, chief executive of Sleeperz Hotels, said: "Sleeperz Hotels is an innovative, fast-growing company with ambitious plans to expand our portfolio of UK lifestyle hotels and is delighted to secure such an exciting development.
"Dundee's waterfront regeneration is one of the biggest of its kind to ever take place in western Europe and will transform the city as a leisure, tourism and retail destination."
"Dundee needs to increase its bed stock and visitors to the city will benefit from our distinctive brand of stylish contemporary rooms and ultra-convenient location at affordable prices."
Sleeperz, which has a hotel in Newcastle and one in Edinburgh, trading as Cityroomz, is targeting further openings in Glasgow, London and Manchester.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article