While keeping only the word ‘Tower’ the new owners of the former Hotel Tower are continuing renovations and hope that when it opens shortly, the new name and investment would be enough to resuscitate the entity and erase negative business connotations.
“We kept the Tower part of the name but don’t want it to be Hotel Tower and will take out Edge Night Club. [We] don’t want any association with anything that was the old hotel…,” one of the principals of the entity told Stabroek News.
According to Deeds Registry records, the hotel was sold to S and S Mining Company.
This newspaper understands that it was sold for over US$8 million.
One of the owners of the hotel, who only gave his name as Mr Khan,