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Scandic To Open New Hotel In Kiruna To Replace Existing Hotel When City Moves To New Location
Scandic has signed an agreement to establish a new hotel in Kiruna's new city center. The hotel property will be owned by Swedish mining company LKAB and built by Skanska. The new hotel will be Kiruna's largest, with 230 rooms, a restaurant and Kiruna's first sky bar. The project is expected to be finished at the end of 2021.
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Kiruna is transforming its urban landscape and developing a new city center about three kilometers from the existing downtown area. The reason for this is that mining iron ore - the basis on which both business and the city are built - will jeopardize the existing city center going forward. Scandic has had an ongoing dialogue with the construction group Skanska for the last few years that has now led to an agreement to build a new hotel in district 10 of Kiruna's new city center. When the new hotel is finished at the end of 2021, it will replace Scandic's existing operations in what is now Scandic Ferrum.
The new hotel will have 230 rooms as well as conference and meeting facilities, a restaurant and a sky bar and gym on the top floor.