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One Galle Face is a mixed-use complex of buildings near the Galle Face Green in Colombo, Sri Lanka.It is also Sri Lanka's first internationally and developed and managed mixed use project and was officially opened on 8 November 2019. [4]
Owned by Shangri-La Hotels, [1] the property is part of the larger One Galle Face development project at the site of the Old Army Headquarters. It is the second Shangri-La hotel on the island (after Shangri-La's Hambantota Golf Resort & Spa) and the 101st hotel of the chain of Shangri-La Hotels world-wide. [6] The hotel was opened on 11 ...
The Galle Face Hotel, founded in 1864, is one of the oldest hotels east of Suez. [1] It is located on Galle Road, Colombo. The Ceylon Hotels Corporation is now part of the Galle Face Hotel Group. [2] The hotel is a member of Select Hotels and Resorts International. [3]
The hotel is located adjacent to the Galle Face Green and next to Shangri-La Colombo and Taj Samudra hotels. It is ITC Hotels' first foreign investment. The hotel is 140 metres (460 ft) tall and accompanied by a 224 metres (735 ft) tall Sapphire Residences building. The two buildings are connected by Ahasa One, a 55 metres (180 ft) sky bridge.
Galle Face Green originally extended over a much larger area than exists today. Records indicate that it was bounded to the north by Beira Lake, the ramparts of Colombo Fort and the city's cemetery (established in 1803), to the west by the Indian Ocean, whilst to the south by the Galle Face Hotel (established in 1864, although the original building on the site was a Dutch villa) and to the ...
With the plans to move the Ministry of Defence and Army Headquarters to the new Defence Headquarters Complex in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, many of the units based there started moving out in 2012, releasing the land for commercial redevelopment which included the Shangri-La Colombo and the larger One Galle Face development project.
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The One: The One Tower, Residential 376 m (1,234 ft) The One: Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residences 326 m (1,070 ft) Altair:Straight Tower 240 m (787 ft) Grand Hyatt 229 m (751 ft) Altair: Sloping Tower 209 m (686 ft) One Galle Face: Residential Tower 1 194 m (636 ft) One Galle Face: Residential Tower 2 194 m (636 ft)