This summer is shaping up to be the summer of hoteliers in magazines. The latest to join the group is Gregory Peck who gets all serious in the Sur la Terre magazine about his hotelier business (Sorry, no online link available!)

The piece is just a simple Q&A with Peck about how he got started in the hotel world (he used to work for Northstar Capital which funded several Ian Schrager hotels) and what his hotelier philosophy is about.

Oh yeah, and a little bit about Cooper Square. Nothing that we or Klaus Ortleib haven't already told you though.

Some tidbits after the jump.]]> juliana 2008-08-14T13:58:48-05:00 40.7277690 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/7/11837/85354 <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/special/Klaus-Ortleib"><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/klaus_GQ.jpg"></a><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/klaus%20ortleib"><b>Klaus Ortleib</b></a>, the man who has scooted in as the third "partner" in the beleaguered <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cooper+Square+Hotel/local/247"><b>Cooper Square Hotel</b></a> did a feature spot in <i><a href="http://men.style.com/gq">GQ</a></i> magazine (sorry, no online link) where he dishes on his favorite things--in and out of hotels.<p>What we learn about Klaus, the former manager at the uber-cool <b>THOR</b> Hotel on the LES:<p>&#183; One of nine kids in a Catholic family from Germany. Umm..Fun?<br>&#183; Trained under both Ian Schrager and Andre Balazs.<br>&#183; He loves horses.<br>&#183; He always wears pressed clothes.<br>&#183; $5.99 glasses from Duane Reade make him happy.<br>&#183; He drives a sick ride--a 2008 Range Rover.<p>Now about the hotel things. Rooms at Cooper Square will all have real live books inside of juliana 2008-08-07T11:24:11-05:00 40.7277690 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/27/181237/944 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/nyoHL.png" class="imgborder"><p>Dear Diary, <p>We can't believe it! <b>Matt Moss</b> and <b>Gregory Peck</b>, once besties growing up on Long Island, are like totally never speaking to each other again.<p>We kinda figured there was some trouble brewing when we <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/9/151313/1047/hotels/Gregory_Peck_Talks_Cooper_Square_">interviewed Gregory Peck</a> over the summer about the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cooper+Square+Hotel/local/247"><b>Cooper Square Hotel</b></a> and he couldn't put us in touch with Matt Moss, only Matt's publicist. And then Matt's publicist was like "Whatever!" And then we had to rush off to P.E.<p>Anyways, the <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/two-high-school-friends-one-hotel-trouble">New York Observer</a> totally outed the fight today and all these grown-up investors are like really POed that Moss isn't keeping them in the loop.<p>But like OMG, Matt Moss totally went behind Greg Peck's back and is starting juliana 2008-02-27T18:25:19-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/13/231826/336 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/coopersq_tenement.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We must have missed this over the MLK Holiday but we were recently googling the drama-plagued <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cooper+Square+Hotel/local/247"><b>Cooper Square Hotel</b></a> yesterday and we came across this article in the NY Times from January 20th.<p>The topic is how NYC developers are working around tenants who refuse to move or be relocated. This is actually something that Gregory Peck told us about when he <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/9/151313/1047/hotels/Gregory_Peck_Talks_Cooper_Square_">talked Cooper Square</a> last summer.<p>The hotel is attached to a four-story tenement building which will not be torn down and will instead continue to house its long-time residents on the top two floors. The Cooper Square Hotel will keep offices on the second floor and basement.<p>We are a bit torn here because no one wants HotelChatter 2008-02-14T09:20:34-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/13/212546/48 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/coopsqbuild.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>In a <a href="http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/39977/"><i>New York</i></a> article, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/matt%20moss">Matt Moss</a> finally weighed in on the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cooper+Square+Hotel/local/247"><b>Cooper Square Hotel</b></a>, a project he's developed with his frenemy <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/gregory%20peck">Gregory Peck.</a><p>The hotel's backers are looking to buy three adjacent lots and the residents are to say the least, concerned. As you know, this is a pretty <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/1/16140/21272/hotels/Is+Gregory+Peck+Still+Onboard+at+the+Cooper+Square+Hotel+Project%3F">feisty bunch</a> and they have resisted the hotel from the very beginning. <p>But what has them really concerned now is the planned second-floor terrace which ends just 30-inches from an apartment building next door. Thus they are presuring the community board to withhold a liquor license until the hotel can ease the residents' fears. And here is where Matt Moss speaks:<blockquote><p>"The block association gave juliana 2007-11-14T09:45:01-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/