Last time we checked in on the The Cooper Square Hotel there was some speculation that the hotel was being torn down before it even began. But  alas, the hotel will continue to rise.

Meanwhile, Eater reports that the hotel was pretty much denied a liquor license for their outdoor terrace due to lack of organization and political skills. However, the Bowery Hotel folk were able to get theirs using all the right moves. Or whatever, we just felt like referencing Tom Cruise's early days.

[Photo: Professor Bop]

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]]> juliana 2007-07-20T13:04:05-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/6/121519/5986 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/curbed_cooperssq_teardown.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/07/06/cooper_square_hotel_a_tear_down_before_its_even_up.php">Curbed</a> is speculating today that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cooper+Square+Hotel/local/247"><b>Cooper Square Hotel</b></a> project might be over.<p>The site has posted numerous pictures (like this one) of the construction and reports that construction crews have been "seen using jack hammers to chew away at those crazy concrete columns" meaning that the hotel could be a tear down before it has even opened.<p>Which isn't that surprising given all the &nbsp;drama with Gregory Peck and his PeckMoss development company which crashed and burned not too long ago. But to hack down a building that's half-way up is a big deal. Curbed has some ideas as to who or what could be behind this and commenters on the story are saying something was built juliana 2007-07-06T12:15:19-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/2/11349/72749

Yesterday a curious tipster asked us if it was really true that Manhattan hotelier Gregory Peck was kicked off the Cooper Square hotel project, saying there was a rumor going around that Peck would handle "money and PR stuff."

Today, we learn our tipster answered their own question. They write in:

Peck is totally out of the Cooper Square Hotel project. [Mark] Moss might have worded it like Peck isn't with us anymore. I don't know if he used the word "fired" but definitely said Peck is gone.

Ok, now that that's squared away anybody interested in buying Peckmoss.com?

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]]> juliana 2007-05-02T09:05:01-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/5/1/16140/21272 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/gpeck_small.png" class="imgborder"/><p>The last time we checked in on the Cooper Square Hotel project, Gawker reported that Gregory Peck (yes, the hotelier, not the actor) had been <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/4/6/12121/36334/hotels/Gregory_Peck_Booted_from_Cooper_Square_Hotel_Project">removed from the venture.</a><p>But a tipster who lives next door to the site has heard differently:<blockquote><p>I live right next door to the site. Myself and my neighbors were extremely happy to hear this since we see first hand how much Peck and Moss are stepping all over their neighbors and neighborhood with this project. (We have a protest movement going so to speak with our own newsgroup about it, clandestine flyers, public meetings, etc). Anyway someone at my building got word that that wasn't true. That Peck has only been assigned juliana 2007-05-01T16:14:56-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/15/161732/602 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/cooper_square_hotel.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><br> Over at <a href="http://www.curbed.com">Curbed</a> we caught our first glimpse of The Coop, Greg Peck's (of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Crescent+Hotel+Beverly+Hills/local/20"><b>Crescent Beverly Hills Hotel</b></a> fame) new Manhattan project.<p> <blockquote><p> The developers of the hotel, the Peckmoss Group, originally told the neighbors that this area at the corner of 5th and The Bowery would be a lush garden spot. But it seems the plants might get in the way of the hotel's party plans. The latest word is that the area will get just a wee bit of greenery. But mainly it will be an outdoor lounge--cocktails and ambient music and all. There will be another outdoor bar just above on the second floor. And yet a third bar in the markj 2007-02-15T16:22:22-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/