Construction work has started on the new £13million Bedford Hotel project in Belfast. The hotel will be located in the former Scottish Mutual building on Donegall Square South. The six-storey building will include 70-bedrooms, two restaurants and a banqueting suite. The owners of the Galgorm Resort & Spa in Ballymena are the hotel operators.

The Bedford Hotel will compete with several new hotel developments in Belfast.  Hastings Hotels have acquired Windsor House in the centre of Belfast and plan to convert the former office block into a new 200-bedroom hotel.
Beannchor, owner of the Merchant Hotel in central Belfast, has submitted plans to renovate Lagan House and convert that into a 55-bedroom hotel with a planned opening in 2016.