Desires Hotels, what's goin' on? Today, Curbed came across a few renderings of what appears to be Cassa Hotel and Residences — the Desires Hotels property on its way to Midtown Manhattan at the end of '09. We're guessing Curbed has designs of the residences, but we did some poking around on the architect's website to find what just might be hotel room renderings (which look a bit different). ]]> Jenna 2009-02-25T15:46:11-05:00 40.7563120 -73.982267 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/5/21158/08997 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/2009NYCopenings.jpg" class="top"><p> We told you that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel%20hype"><b>Hotel Hype</b></a> machine would be alive and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/2/131143/9860/hotels/The_Hotel_Hype_Machine_Will_Keep_On_Chugging_in_2009">kicking in 2009</a> despite the gloomy-as-all-hell economic outlook for the hospitality industry and oh yeah, for the rest of the world. But 2009 is also shaping up to be a year with several new very cool hotels on the horizon, not just in New York but around the world. (All these were pipe dreams cemented no doubt in the boom hotel years from 2004-2006.)<p>So every Tuesday we are going to bring you a new edition of 2009 Openings Previews, starting today with the original--<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/us/NY/New%20York"><b>New York City.</b></a> 2008 was a banner year for NYC hotels. Thompson opened up LES, feuding hoteliers Matt Moss juliana 2009-01-06T11:30:44-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/