http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T08:28:22Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/AB-Hotels-Map http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/25/131548/676 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/abwestvillage.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/AB-Hotels-Map"><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/abmap_sml.jpg"></a><b>UPDATE:</b> <i>A reliable tipster tells us the address of the new AB Hotel is <b>345 West 14th Street</b>, which would mean it's not in the buildings shown above. And the plot thickens.</i><p> We always take rumors of a new <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/andre%20balazs"><b>Andre Balazs</b></a> hotel here very seriously, as evidenced by our map of both real and rumored <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/ab-hotels-map">AB Hotels.</a><p>However, his next location is probably more worthy of a "real" classification than a "rumored" depending on whether you put stock in <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2008/03/24/is_this_the_site_of_andr_balazs_next_hotel.php">Curbed</a>, which we do.<p>We had previously gotten a tip that that the location would be a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/19/143835/71/hotels/Andre_Balazs_Another_Hotel_in_the_Highline_or_Just_a_Private_Club_">private club</a> but Curbed is reporting that Balazs will indeed open a new hotel at 320-324 West juliana 2008-03-25T15:00:16-05:00 40.740885 -74.004419 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/8/19842/27840 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/andre_balazs_scarf.jpg">Somehow we got caught up in reading Robin Leach's Luxe Life Vegas blog the other day. Normally, we would chide ourselves for breaking our 2008 resolution of not being so celeb-obsessed but this bit of ADD internet surfing actually paid off. <p>A post from <a href="http://blogs.lasvegasmagazine.com/VegasLuxeLife/foreigners%e2%80%94including-the-russians%e2%80%94bankroll-new-mega-hotel-projects-real-life-vegas-monopoly/">the end of December</a> details some enormous Vegas project that's happening behind the strip.<blockquote><p> Over 60-acres of land stretching down Harmon between the Planet Hollywood resort and condo towers to the Hard Rock hotel has been packaged together by the Africa-Israel Investment Bank, which is controlled by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev.</blockquote></p><p>Several boutique hotels are planned for this parcel, so says Robin. Giuseppee Cipriani will plan a boutique hotel and the planned <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/23/13317/1557/hotels/An_Elvis_Themed_Resort_is_Planned_for_Las_Vegas">Elvis juliana 2008-01-09T09:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/19/143835/71 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/ab_privateclub.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We got a tip that <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Andre%20Balazs"><b>Andre Balazs</b></a> would be creating another hotel just blocks away from his rising <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Standard+NYC/local/795"><b>Standard Hotel</b></a> in Manhattan's Highline project. <p>We were fully about to put this hotel on our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/7/225116/273/hotels/Andre_Balazs_Hotels_The_Real_and_The_Rumored">Andre Balazs: The Real and The Rumored map</a> but when we did some brief internet research we found this article from last January from the <a href="http://www.therealdeal.net/issues/JANUARY_2007/1167677287.php">Real Deal</a> that said:<blockquote><p>Andre Balazs, who is developing the Standard New York hotel at 844 Washington Street and a <b>private club</b> on 10th Avenue and 14th Street....</blockquote></p><p>So we are going to refrain from adding it to the map. Currently, the address is the site of the old <a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/hp/studio/2005-2006/resources/resources_secondary.html">Cudahy Cold Storage facility</a> which was built juliana 2007-11-19T15:17:06-05:00 40.741669 -74.007853 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/7/225116/273 <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/AB-Hotels-Map"><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/balazsmap.png" class="imgborder"></a><p>Where will <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/andre%20balazs"><b>Andre Balazs</b></a> open his next hotel? We already know about the established AB Hotels--Mercer, Chateau, the Standards in LA, the upcoming Standard NYC and the Raleigh--but we're also hearing of some other projects in places like London, Seattle, Chicago, St. Barths and the Bahamas.<p>So just to help you visualize <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/71926212@N00/1526852352/">Page Six's favorite hotelier's</a> pending hotel expansion or his hotel pipe dreams, however you see it, we've cobbled together an <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/maps/AB-Hotels-Map"><b>AB Hotels Map</b></a>. Here you can see where Andre has his hotels and where he's been rumored to set up next. Most recently, a HotelChatter reader let us know that Balazs has a map point of his own in St. Barths on the juliana 2007-10-10T16:07:02-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/