Team behind PINS Social Club set to reopen 60 Hope Street in 2025 after huge renovations

One of Liverpool city center’s more well-known addresses is set to turn on its lights and open its doors to the public in the new year.

The team behind Duke Streets’ PINS Social Club, which opened just weeks before the pandemic in 2020, received the keys to 60 Hope Street in November and have begun work on the first of their projects scheduled to open in 2025.

Directors David Scowcroft, Dan Gillbanks – who was recently awarded Young Business Leader of the Year – and Dan Kelly who joined the duo earlier this year to lead the expansion of the business portfolio, will diversify their offering with the Hope Street project before returning to their competitive socialising roots. The trio have setting their sights on something a little more low-key – the classic public house – before turning their focus back to PINS and getting to work on a new site outside of the City later in the year.

Dan Gillbanks said:

“The fit-out is well under way. The initial plans and designs are befitting of the building, immediate area and historic location. I’ve always imagined 60 Hope Street as a really cosy and perhaps elevated pub. I’ve lived in the area for a short while but even before then I had ideas and designs for how it might look and feel. I think a pub fits the building perfectly, we want to do it justice and treat it with the respect its history deserves.’

The building which was built and first occupied in 1820 has musical heritage, having been the residence of both a Music Lecturer at Liverpool University and a Piano Merchant. Later turned into a private members club for Chauffer’s to go and be upskilled as their wealthy employers fulfilled evening engagements, the name perhaps more familiar as the iconic 70s and 80s Chauffer’s Club.

Laid across three floors – an upper ground Taproom, the first floor Parlour and lower ground Tavern – the interiors will be reminiscent of Chesire country pubs, as well as some of London’s recently revived and elevated watering holes. Whilst the name, The Dog & Collar, is a playful nod to the building’s proximity to both the Anglican and Catholic Cathedrals, located at either end of Hope Street.