PHOTO: SUPPLIED Hotel developers and operators Sarin Investments are aiming to complete The Sebel Hotel in Lower Hutt by the end of March 2021.
Hotel developer Raman Sarin is reassuring Lower Hutt residents they will have their new $15 million, 60-room hotel next year but other planned hotel projects in the capital and Christchurch will be delayed.
One of the country’s large hotel developers and operators, Sarin Investments is aiming to complete Lower Hutt’s The Sebel, plagued by delays, by the end of March, about four years later than originally planned.
It has been a saga of troublesome engineering and geotechnical issues on the site which is located above an aquifer and cost disputes with the builder Watts and Hughes related to those issues as well as changes to the design setting the construction back from the original early 2017 completion date.
Sarin is contracted to run the Hutt City Council’s $34.2m events centre, opened in 2018, and build and operate the hotel. The events centre was part of a longer term plan to rejuvenate the council precinct and attract events to the area and the hotel was regarded as complementary to that.
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