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Article: STATION MASTER ; Harry Handelsman has taken the Victorian Gothic ruin of St Pancras and transformed it into a grand hotel and luxury flats for the post- loft generation. Helen Kirwan-Taylor gets a personal tour
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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Harry Handelsman is a brave man. While many of his developer
friends totter on the verge of bankruptcy, he is in the midst of one
of London's most ambitious and risky renovation schemes. St Pancras
Chambers, Sir George Gilbert Scott's great architectural
achievement, is currently being converted into a 244-room luxury
hotel and 67 luxury flats. Handelsman (along with London &
Continental Railways, the owner of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) was
initially only committed to developing the flats, but ended up with
the hotel when the original partners, Whitbread plc, pulled out in
2006. With the current budget running close to Pounds 200 million,
Handelsman is now personally exposed to the tune ...