HotelChatter - Tag: Ian Schrager

Chicago: Schrager to Buy Chicago's Ambassador East Hotel?

Jenna — 2009-06-30T09:04:32-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/ambassadorschrager.jpg" class="top"> Hot gossip for the oh-so-early morning: <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090629/FREE/906299993">Crain's is reporting</a> that <A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/ian schrager">Ian Schrager</a> is in talks to buy the not-so-buzzed-about-anymore <A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Ambassador+East+Hotel/ian/109361">Ambassador East Hotel</a> in Chicago (along with its Pump Room restaurant). Obviously, he would rename and completely revamp the 285-room, somewhat distressed property. Per Crain's: <blockquote> Mr. Schrager hasn't decided on the hotel's new name, or whether he'd rename the Pump Room, where celebrities from Bette Davis to Frank Sinatra to Natalie Wood once held court. During the heyday of cross-country train travel, the late Sun-Times newspaper columnist Irv Kupcinet was a fixture in the restaurant's Booth One, where he interviewed movie stars passing through Chicago on trips between the coasts.</blockquote> Aww, bringin' back

New York: A New Ian Schrager Hotel is Coming to Manhattan

Jenna — 2009-05-13T09:37:05-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/schrager2.jpg" class="top"> <A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/ian schrager">Ian Schrager</a> has been sorta quiet lately, no? After announcing plans for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Edition%20Hotels">Edition Hotels</a> (the Schrager/Marriott hybrid, about which we've heard very little lately, come to think of it), he kinda dropped off our radar but, as it turns out, he's poised to make a big ol' hotel industry comeback on his own, too, and has got something up his sleeve for Manhattan. The <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05132009/business/schrager_plans_midtown_hotel_168947.htm?page=0">New York Post reported</a> this morning that the Schrager-man has just worked out an a deal to turn an office building at Avenue of the Americas and 58th Street in Manhattan into "not just a two- or three-star establishment, but a 'six-star' luxury Ian Schrager Hotel." This ain't

New York: Can a Danny Meyer Restaurant Help the Gramercy Park Hotel?

Jenna — 2009-04-13T16:38:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/13diners_gramercy.jpg" class="top"> What do you do when your once-super-hyped, oh-so-trendy NYC hotel has suddenly become hype-free, is no longer <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/5/144126/9236/hotels/Gramercy_Park_Hotel_and_Other_Luxe_Hotels_Offering_Great_Deals">doing so well</a> financially, and to top things off its eagerly-anticipated restaurant <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/30/115359/27/hotels/Wakiya_at_Gramercy_Park_to_Close_Dec_21st">kinda flopped</a> when it opened? If you're<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/ian schrager"> Ian Schrager</a> and if the property in question is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gramercy+Park+Hotel/local/4%22">Gramercy Park Hotel</a>, you bring in the big guns. And as any foodie knows, when it comes to restaurants in NYC, the "big guns" come in the form of a restauranter by the name of Danny Meyer. The <a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/danny-meyer-checks-in-to-gramercy-park-hotel/">New York Times reports</a> that Mr. Meyer the man behind popular Manhattan restaurants like Union Square Cafe, Eleven Madison Park, Blue Smoke and Gramercy

New York: Gramercy Park Hotel Flaunting Their Deals on Social Networks

JetSetCD — 2009-03-20T11:32:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/GPH.jpg" class="top"> Looks like someone isn't exactly weathering the recession very well: Ian Schrager's goth-licious <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gramercy+Park+Hotel/local/4">Gramercy Park Hotel</a> is humbling itself before the altar of hotel discounts to release some pretty sweet room offers for spring in Manhattan. First, the GPH hit the social networks, sending out an email blast to members of the invitation-only ASmallWorld, also known as pretentious Facebook for the older set. According to <a href="http://www.downbythehipster.com/blog/2009/3/19/gramercy-park-takes-to-the-social-networks.html">Down By the Hipster</a>, the elite member of the website would be privy to a buy-one-get-one-half-off deal, or as Payless likes to call it, a "Bogo." Normally we would ignore such a restricted offer, seeing as how we don't know a soul who even uses ASmallWorld except for the

Istanbul: Top That! Edition Hotel Will Open in Istanbul in December

juliana — 2009-03-12T16:06:56-05:00

UPDATE: A rendering of the building is now pictured after the jump.

South Beach, DC, Honolulu, Istanbul. What do all these destinations have in common? They have all, at one point or another, been designated the location for the very first Edition Hotel, the new luxury hotel collection spawned by Bill Marriott and Ian Schrager.

Last we checked, Edition Honolulu would open in sometime in 2010. The Edition DC project was starting to look rather unlikely and we've got no idea what happening with Edition South Beach.

But now there's been an announcement that Edition Istanbul will open before all these other jokers on Dec 15, 2009.