Reo stakis biography

 

Reo Stakis.

£500,000 Hotel Plan Withdrawn.

 

301 Albert Drive Pollokshields. 1970.

116 St. Andrew's Drive. 1970.

Applications by the Reo Stakis Organisation for a £500,000 hotel plan for Pollokshields, Glasgow, which were to have come before the city Licensing Court, were withdrawn on the eve of the court's sitting.

Two hotels had been planned one 'The Knowe' in Albert Drive and the other 'The Gables' in St Andrew's Drive.

Both were to have been 50 bed roomed hotels. The applications were withdrawn because of opposition by local residents and Glasgow councillor Cyril Lombardi, of Pollokshields, said he was very pleased with the decision.

Mr Lombardi, who was managing director of Dambrosio, McKinlay and Lombardi, wholesale wine and spirit merchants, declared: 'This has not been a man-hunt.' The main complaint, he said was the sitting of the two establishments.

He was sure that other sites could be found in the district whi