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A six star hotel construction resume
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Source: Luc Jacobs & Pieter Postema
With the exception of a lull in the demand for hotel construction in the late 1990s early 2000s, the increase in both leisure and business tourism, the legalisation of gambling in South Africa, and major international events including the 2010 FIFA World Cup have provided a constant demand for the development and construction of hotels in South Africa.
Stefanutti Stocks Building’s hotel construction resume dates back to the 1970s when the ex-Stocks construction team was initially exposed to fast track, high quality construction of hotels and casino’s via Sol Kerzner’s Sun International projects. Over a dozen hotels were built for the hotel tycoon over a period of 15 years, including the world famous Sun City (1978) and The Lost City (1992), both completed in record time. During the 1980s and 1990s the company became intimately involved in the development, project management and construction of their own hotels and time-share resorts for Stocks Leisure, giving them exceptional insight into hotel and resort construction budgeting, management and project delivery. The time-share developments are still successful today, and include La Cote da Zure (KZN), Kwa Maritane, Bakubung and Tshukudu in the Pilansberg. The impressive Michelangelo Hotel in Sandton was built in 1996 and is today rated in the leading hotels of the world category.
In the mid nineties the Windhoek Country Club Hotel & Casino and the Swakopmund Station Hotel and Entertainment Centre were developed for Stocks Leisure.
The Swakopmund Station Hotel, an old station building and a national monument, was a unique project where work was done solely on the interior of the station building and new buildings were added to accommodate 90 rooms, conference rooms, restaurants and the casino. In contrast, the 120-room Windhoek Country Club was built from the ground up, and completed in 12 months, in time for the first Miss Universe ever held on African soil.
A further two hotels were built in Namibia for clients.The industry in general went through a lull and in September 2005 construction started on the Sibaya Hotel Lodge in Kwazulu Natal for the Sun International Group, marking the revival of this sector.
In the last few years a list of impressive hotel construction projects have been awarded to Stefanutti Stocks. These include a combination of refurbishments/additions to existing hotels such as the Golden Horse Casino & Hotel property (Pietermaritzburg) and the Stay Easy Hotel at Century City in Cape Town. Inner city refurbishments include the impressive 15 On Orange and Cape Royale in Cape Town. New builds range from the impressive 5-star One and Only on the Cape Town Foreshore and the new Radisson hotel in Maputo, through to flagship new City Lodge on the OR Tambo multi-storey car park, to the mid-range Holiday Inn Express brand (one in Pretoria, one in Cape Town), a new Stay Easy in Rustenburg and a brand new Garden Court hotel in Durban.
Exposure to nearly five decades of hotel construction and proactive involvement in the design processes has resulted in Stefanutti Stocks becoming a highly respected, value adding partner to most hotel developers in South Africa and neighbouring countries.
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