NYC Hotel News

[Derek2k3]

The New York Times
Looks Like a Condo, Acts Like a Hotel

By MARC SANTORA
Published: September 17, 2010





ROOM service on demand from a celebrity chef. A maid to make the bed with fresh linens every day and leave a chocolate on your pillow at night. An 11,000-square-foot spa an elevator ride away. All yours with the purchase of a luxury condo.

Nearly a dozen projects in and around New York City that offer perks like these have recently opened or are nearing completion. For developers from Hoboken to Harlem, Williamsburg to SoHo, a condominium with a hotel attached is one more weapon in the reignited amenities arms race...Read More

[lofter1]

A new owner out of South Carolina has grabbed this site at 325 West 33rd Street ...

Now an empty lot where Glad Tidings church used to stand ...



... The architects are now the restrained Helpern Architects.

Here's a rough second design by Konyk. I posted an apartment tower they designed for the site earlier, this one's a hotel.






Konyk Architecturehttp://www.konyk.net/index.htm

Glad! Hotel
New York, NY

The design for a new hotel development on West 33rd Street for GLAD Tidings Tabernacle features a sky lobby and houses a church on the lower levels.

CURBED showed a plan about one year ago. Not clear what the plan will now be, but the track record of the new owner leaves me wary ...

New hotel slated for Penn Station area

South Carolina-based operator picked up West 33rd Street site for bargain $22M
last month; plans to build its first Manhattan hotel after years of trying for site

CRAIN'S
By Theresa Agovino
September 24, 2010

A South Carolina-based hotel company is planning to build its first-ever Manhattan hotel on a parcel it purchased on West 33rd Street for $21.9 million.

OTO Development purchased the site across from the Farley Post Office last month, but executives don't want to discuss specific plans about what kind of a hotel they want for the site or when construction might start. The company currently owns 33 hotels operating under different brand names such as Hyatt Place and Residence Inn. In the past, OTO has owned a hotel in Queens and several on Long Island.

“Before we hadn't been able to close a deal that made financial sense (in Manhattan),” said Corry Oakes, chief executive officer of the firm, which is located in Spartanburg, S.C.

OTO bought the parcel at a 30% discount from what the previous owner paid.

Mr. Oaks said the site was very appealing because of the pending redevelopment of Penn Station and the Hudson rail yards.

John Fox, a senior vice president at PKF Consulting, agrees it is a great site for a hotel. “There are not that many hotels within a block or two of Penn station,” said Mr. Fox, adding that Vornado Realty Trust plans to close the largest one in the area, the Hotel Pennsylvania. “There is a lot happening in that neighborhood.”

Dan Fasulo, managing director of Real Capital Analytics, said the transaction signals a willingness of some investors to buy raw land, something no one was willing to do during the recession.

OTO was established in 2004 and one of its chief investors is billionaire Wayne Huizenga, who started three Fortune 500 companies, owned the Florida Marlins baseball team and still holds a small piece of the Miami Dolphins football team.

© 2010 Crain Communications Inc.

[antinimby]

McSam's southern cousins?

[lofter1]

Looking at the OTO Development hotel properties it seems they favor another style:

Freeway Off-Ramp Contemporary

The OTO company philosophy:

"... OTO especially likes the select-service class of hotels because they have fewer moving parts and bigger margins, according to Oakes. “It’s an investment class we’re more comfortable developing and managing. It’s a more profitable business.” "

[Merry]

The Nolitan Goes Full Frontal on Kenmare Street

October 14, 2010, by Pete Davies





Often stalled but now nearly complete, The Nolitan, the boutique hotel down at the edge of Chitaly and Nolita, is finally showing off its two faces. The sidewalk is laid and big slabs of glass, punctuated by frameworks in exposed concrete with major stainless steel hardware to hold it all together, rise over Kenmare Street. The entire perimeter is lined with matte black tile, creating a moat of darkness where the building hits the street. Fritted glass wraps around the corner at Elizabeth, and clapboards in black ceramic stack up nine stories towards the glass-rimmed terrace up top. One thing's for sure: The gang at Grzywinski+Pons have brought some wonky glitz to the nabe.

The Nolitan's own website still claims "Opening late summer 2010" but that's clearly not the case. Some websters recently claimed the new opening date is November 1. But HotelChatter, which got a sneak peek of a nearly ready model room up top, says the real date is "after Thanksgiving." Given what's been going on with this site, including some ticked-off neighbors, that window could stretch to infinity.

The Nolitan [nolitanhotel.com]
Sneak Peek At The Nolitan Guest Rooms [Hotel Chatter]
The Nolitan coverage [Curbed]

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/1...are_street.php

[mariab]

Be interesting to see who swipes that floor that juts out. I think maybe an alpha male/female. Btw, does anyone know who owns and/or is tenant of this building on 42nd. When you come out of the Lincoln, dead end at the PABT & make right onto 42nd, it's on the right, about 20-25 stories, dark blue/gray glass & tapers outward toward the top like an upside down bellbottom.

[antinimby]

11 Times Square and it's 40 stories tall.

[mariab]

But it's not in Times Sq unless that's just the name. I'm not sure if that's the building I'm thinking about. Will have to take pic next time.

[mariab]

Nevermind. Just found a neat-o time lapse vid of its contruction. Didn't realize it was that tall. Thanks.

[Derek2k3]

These two buildings are being demolished for what I presume will be another budget hotel. No block in the 30's will be unscathed from these streetwall busting piles of junk.




http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1315/...95a14d74_b.jpg


Demo for 45 W 38
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...ssdocnumber=01

Demo for 43 W 38
http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...ssdocnumber=01
Owner is listed as MALIKA HOSPITALITY LLC

[scumonkey]

I live on 38th...Please tell me that Gene the Hackman won't be designing them?!!!
The building on the left should be restored- not ripped out and replaced with a cheap ass hotel..
SAVE THE GARMENT DISTRICT!!!!

[Stroika]

Seriously, this is beginning to reach a critical mass. The Garment District is pure, classic Gotham. One of the best areas of Manhattan. Kaufman is singlehandedly trashing it, like Charlie Sheen in his hotel room after a night of hookers and coke.

How the hell do we take action? At what point does the city realize it doesn't have to die a death-by-Kaufman? How does anyone get Burden's ear?

[londonlawyer]

It's a shame that they could not acquire the POS on the SW corner of B'Way and W 50h St. that houses Duane Reade.

Brack Capital announces Times Square hotel

November 12, 2010 02:30PM
Brack Capital Real Estate has joined a European hotel partner to develop a 78,000-square-foot hotel at 218-222 West 50th Street in Times Square, the company announced today. Sidney Rosenthal of Grubb & Ellis represented both the buyer and the seller. "This acquisition is unique, as this $50 million development project will be built and all funds are already in place for its completion within two years," said Issac Hera, CEO of Brack Capital. Plans for the site -- which is currently a multi-story parking facility -- have not yet been announced. TRD

[Fabrizio]

re: "The Garment District is pure, classic Gotham"

These are my favorite commercial blocks in NYC. The architecture, materials, the patina of the elements and time. So rich in detail. A block like that pictured above seems to have been designed by one hand with a strong artistic vision.

A shame that no one has produced the definitive Garment District over-sized coffee-table book of the area's architecture. Time is running out...

[londonlawyer]

I agree. This area (and the contiguous area around Penn Station) should be landmarked ASAP before the huge WANG "developers" destroy it.