Harry Harris

    Episode 45: The UK Hospitality Industry: The Lay of the Land

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    During this episode of DESIGN POD, sponsored by Schlüter-Systems Ltd, Harry Harris, Managing Director at SUSD, talks to Sophie Harper about the changes he’s seen in the hospitality industry over the years and gives us his opinion on the investment market and disruptors affecting the current hospitality landscape in the , UK…

    An architect by training and an entrepreneur in spirit, Harry Harris is a developer and advisor to investors active in the hospitality, co-living/coworking, senior living and residential sectors in London and further afield.

    Harry had tremendous success as the developer of The Curtain Hotel in London’s Shoreditch. A new-build hotel, it was conceived as a response to contemporary lifestyles. The Curtain comprised hotel, restaurants, members club, coworking spaces and a rooftop bar and pool together with a strong focus on live performance and music curated to attract the neighbourhood artists and creatives. In 2018, just 18 months after The Curtain launched, Harry successfully sold the hotel to the Reuben Brothers and the hotel was rebranded as Mondrian Shoreditch, and this summer rebranded again with new operators to become the first Virgin Hotels London.

    More recently, Harry and his team at SUSD worked on the acclaimed The BoTree in Marylebone and is currently working with Cale Street Partners on the redevelopment of The Park Tower Hotel, Knightsbridge. He has completed several co-living ventures with Cheyne Capital/The Collective and the latest development, in Maida Vale, is now on-site. In Fulham, another project completed by the SUSD team, luxury retirement apartments Riverstone Living, a Cheyne Capital/Goldman Sachs backed scheme, is receiving its first residents, and Harry and team have most recently been appointed on the Lazari Investments backed mixed-use redevelopment of Fenwicks of Bond Street.

    Hear Harry talk about his experience and projects, and the challenges the industry has had to overcome, as well as finding out what he thinks about the security of the current market.

     

    DESIGN POD is brought to you by Hotel Designs. This series is sponsored by Schlüter-Systems Ltd, produced by Kevin Lines, and hosted by Sophie Harper.