Offices Boutique Hôtel in Luxembourg-Kirchberg; Credit: CMIL

On Monday, the foundation stone of the new Offices Boutique Hotel (OBH), a new complex launched in Kirchberg by CMIL, was celebrated in the presence of Luxembourg's Prime minister, Xavier Bettel.

The project will see a Mama Shelter business hotel on the site behind the Sofitel and Novotel in Kirchberg, and will include 11,500 m2 of office space and a 145-room hotel.

The Holiday Inn Luxembourg was the CMIL's first building on the Kirchberg plateau in 1983; the company is again investing in the business district. In 2015, in a study of an extension project on the rue du Fort Niedergrünewald, CMIL started preparing the ground for a new complex of two buildings, located on a common base housing an underground car park.

Designed by the architectural firm M3 and called OBH (Offices Boutique Hotel), this complex will have two buildings facing the towers of the European Court of Justice. The first will consist of offices and will be accessible from May 2020. The second, the hotel, will open in March of the same year under the "Mama Shelter" brand, renowned for its design establishments with a friendly atmosphere and affordable rooms.

Offices for rent, co-working space and new police station

The first building of the complex, all in black, will consist of rows of glazed boxes with random sizes. It will rise over seven floors, six of which will be dedicated to renting offices. Spread over 11,500 m2, these high-quality modular workspaces will all be equipped according to current standards of comfort, connectivity and energy performance.

The main entrance, on the ground floor of the building, will be accessible from the corner of Rue de Fort Niedergrünewald and Rue Charles-Léon Hammes. It will host a lobby area, a cafeteria reserved for offices, and also meeting and conference rooms.

The lower two levels will be reserved for a 265-space car park and a new police station serving the western tip of Kirchberg.

Mama Shelter

Totally white, the second building will host the Mama Shelter, the first of that name in Luxembourg. 145 rooms on five floors will be dominated by a large roof-top, a future idyllic place of relaxation and dining. The Mama Shelter will also offer a 900 m2 coworking space, accessible from Rue du Fort Niedergrünewald.

Key dates:
1983: Opening of the Holiday Inn, the only building on the Kirchberg plateau, by Continental Motor Inn Luxembourg (now CMIL)
 
1989: transfer to a Parisian company, the hotel is then operated by the Accor group and becomes the Pullman Hotel
 
1991: development of an extension following the success of the hotel
 
1993: Pullman becomes Novotel Kirchberg and its extension opens under the Sofitel Europe banner
 
1996: renovation of the Novotel
 
1999: transfer to the current owner
 
2001: start of the extension project on boulevard JF Kennedy in Kirchberg
 
2007: opening of the Novotel Centre
 
2008: opening of Sofitel Grand-Ducal
 
2009: start of the Kirchberg office-hotel project (BHK): offices and Novotel Suite
 
2010: Opening of Novotel Suite to Novotel Suites
 
2011: opening of BHK offices occupied by Pictet and EIB
 
2015: start of the extension project on rue du Fort Niedergrünewald
2018: start of the earthworks of the Offices Boutique Hotel complex (OBH) in March: offices and Mama Shelter