Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has unveiled ambitious plans for a £10million upgrade of Glasgow’s Crystal Palace pub.
The proposals will see a hotel built on a vacant site next to the building in Jamaica Street, creating up to 30 jobs.
The hotel will also takeover the top two floors of the existing building, which are currently lying empty, according to a spokesman for JD Wetherspoon.
The new hotel would have 73 bedrooms – 45 in the new build with another 28 above the pub.
The chain has had meetings with planners and an application will be submitted to Glasgow City Council.
JD Wetherspoon has 36 hotels in the UK, including seven in Scotland.
Spokesman Eddie Gershon said: “We are keen to open a new hotel alongside and above our pub, The Crystal Palace, in Glasgow.
“We believe that the hotel would be a great asset to the city and to the pub itself.”
The building in Jamaica Street was designed by John Baird and completed in 1856.
Its iron and glass structure was said to be influenced by Joseph Paxton's famous Crystal Palace in London.
The Wetherspoon pub opened in 2000 and has two bars spread on two floors of the four-storey building.
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