Steuart House boutique hotel to open this month
View(s):‘Steuart House’, the 175-year old colonial building in Fort which houses the headquarters of George Steuart & Co. Ltd, will be re-opened in end May as a boutique hotel, officials said.
The building housing George Steuart & Co. Ltd, the country’s oldest mercantile institution, has been transformed to a 50-room hotel at a Rs.350 million investment.
Divasa Equity owns 70 per cent of George Steuart & Co. Ltd. According to officials, the hotel will be marketed under a “Scottish theme”. A mix of internally generated funds and bank borrowings has been utilised for the project.