Reply With QuoteI got the RFP and was notified that the project was awarded.
Wow! Where did you hear that? That's great news. The Sheraton in Times Sq. is a dump!
I got the RFP and was notified that the project was awarded.
Hallelujah! They couldn't bring this piece of craptacular down soon enough.
I wonder if that building will be razed or if this one will? I assume it's the one that Antinimby posted.
That last one is a Morris Lapidus building (although much altered from the original).
It's the AntiNimby one. They've been doing feasibility studies on it for years for a variety of different uses and reconfigurations. The latest proposal was requested in 2009, so I imagine it can be assumed that it is real.
Thanks, Lofter and BR. I assumed that it was not the one that I posted since it's a decent building. (I did not know that Lapidus designed it.) The Standard looks like a modern iteration of it.
It seems that the current hotel, while not tall, occupies a pretty large footprint. Therefore, the developer could building something with a small footprint that's quite tall. I'm surprised that Intercontinental did not do this on 8th. Tourists in a hotel want to have a high-floor with a view.
That one is the 23-story Sheraton at 790 Seventh Avenue / 1652 Broadway (aka 794 - 798 Seventh / 1652 - 1670 Broadway - between W 52st & W 52nd). It's called the Sheraton Manhattan Hotel, as opposed to the Sheraton Towers across the Avenue at 811 Seventh (W 52nd / W 53rd)
DOB shows for the site at 1652 Broadway: On 4.15.09 an Application was APPROVED for:
FACADE RESTORATION, REMOVE AND REPLACE SEALANT AT WINDOWS, REPLACE BRICKS,
SHED WILL BE FILED ON A SEPARATE APPLICATION AS SHOWN ON DRAWINGS FILED HEREWITH.
NO CHANGE IN USE, EGRESS, OR OCCUPANCY.
A Google Map walk around the block shows that the Sheraton Manhattan takes up the full block; it sits on a plot thus described:
Beginning at a point on the NORTH side of WEST 51ST STREET
Running Thence: N 201 . 01 ft. Thence: E 170 . 11 ft.
Running Thence: S 200 . 10 ft. Thence: W 161 . 09 ft.
Running Thence: 0 ft. Thence: 0 ft.
Running Thence: 0 ft. Thence: 0 ft.
Wait, now I'm confused. Will it be demolished or just facade restoration?
Sometimes Applications to DOB are done in incremental steps -- "Facade Renovation' can morph into "Vertical Enlargement" or "Demo" / "New Building" Applications.
Clearly the block as it exists now is way underbuilt.
Thanks for the info, Lofter. It seems that they can build a pretty tall tower on this site.
The 28/6th Ave Starwood site was a failed apartment project called REMY. The completed foundation was backfilled over a year ago.
SCHRAGER PLANS MIDTOWN HOTEL
Last updated: 11:58 am
May 13, 2009
Posted: 1:04 am
May 13, 2009
By Lois Weiss
HOTEL king Ian Schrager has just worked out an agreement with Norman Sturner to turn the current, Class B office building at 1414 Avenue of the Americas into not just a two- or three-star establishment, but a "six-star" luxury Ian Schrager Hotel.
"We will empty the property and let him do his magic," said Sturner of Schrager. Sturner's own job, he said, is to be the "owner."
Through expiring leases, the building will be "virtually empty" by 2010, when $100 million in development work could start.
The 1923-era, 18-story building on the southeast corner of 58th Street has great views of Central Park. It was built as a hotel and its penthouse roof deck is where the rock group Kiss held parties.
Sturner's Murray Hill Properties and investor David Werner paid $120.5 million -- or $873 a square foot -- for the 138,000-foot building in 2007 and planned to empty it for residential or hotel redevelopment. The Kobe Club, owned by Jeffrey Chodorow's China Grill Management, shut down there at the end of April.
But does the city need a new hotel?
Last April, hotel-room occupancies were a bountiful 87 percent. According to John Fox of PKF Consulting, the occupancy rate is expected to fall into the low 70-percent range. At the same time, room rates have dropped 20 percent to 25 percent, Fox said.
"It's pretty significant. You can get a room, and on selected nights get it for $100, and I never thought I'd see that rate again," he said. "Given where the market is right now, we probably don't need [another hotel]."
But as occupancies rise over the next year or so, Fox says room rates will also start climbing, which means Schrager could open at just the right time.
Technically, a six-star hotel rating does not yet exist but it is the buzz number used for indescribable eye candy, like the sail-shaped, and service-driven Burj Al-Arab in Dubai.
While Schrager didn't return calls to provide details of what he's got planned, a closely placed source said, "You can expect a lot more activity from Ian over the coming months."
Stay tuned.
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I hate this 6 star BS. Its like people who give 110%. IT DOESNT EXIST.
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