Hospitality

Hospitality

Ancoats Manchester secures £15.7m from OakNorth to deliver new Hilton Motto Hotel in Manchester

Wednesday May 21st, 2025

Ancoats Manchester has secured a £15.7m development and trading facility from OakNorth to deliver a 154-key Motto by Hilton hotel in Manchester city centre; The hotel will be one of the first Motto-branded properties in the UK, targeting modern, urban travellers with flexible room formats and a tech-enabled guest experience; The project is backed by […]

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OakNorth participates in club loan to Fortress and Lion Capital to support acquisition of Loungers, which plans to roll out 30 new sites a year

Thursday May 1st, 2025

OakNorth – the leading bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs – has participated in a club loan to support Lion Capital and Fortress Investment Group’s Public to Private acquisition of Loungers, one of the UK’s fastest-growing all-day café-bar operators.

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OakNorth has provided a £6.4m loan to pioneering hospitality business, Rocket Leisure, to support its future expansion

Monday November 25th, 2024

• Founded in 2010 by brothers, Russell and Howard Taylor, and their business partner, Tom Jackman, the business has since grown to four sites across London; • Across all four venues, they put on over 1,000 gigs a year, attracting over 6,000 customers each week; • The capital from OakNorth will enable the business to […]

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OakNorth completes £1.47m loan for development of a Starbucks drive-thru and two EV charging points in established Greater Manchester retail park

Thursday November 7th, 2024

The borrowing entity, Fairmilehead Ltd, is owned and led by Dallas Rhodes, who has over 30 years’ experience in the property industry, across retail, office, and residential; The site, Parsonage Way, is an established retail park in Leigh, Greater Manchester with neighbouring retailers including Greggs, Halfords, Costa, Sainsburys, TK Maxx and KFC; Starbucks has a […]

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SGS Group completes refinancing of four major shopping centres following £445m club loan from OakNorth

Monday September 23rd, 2024

The four shopping centres are: Lakeside in Essex, Atria in Watford, Victoria Centre in Nottingham, and Braehead in Glasgow; With a catchment population totalling 9.4m the sites are four of the leading shopping centres nationally; Average occupancy rates for the sites have increased to 93%, with tenants consisting of international and national retail brands, including […]

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Veld Capital and Maya Capital complete £45.7m loan from OakNorth to fund the development of a new hotel in central London

Tuesday July 16th, 2024

The new development will consist of a 222-bedroom, upper-midscale hotel; The hotel will be operated by Motel One, a Munich-based affordable lifestyle company which operates over 90 hotels across 14 countries in Europe and the US; Located in SE1, the new hotel will be a short walk from key tourist attractions such as Tate Modern, […]

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