http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T22:33:18Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/bd%20hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/5/10282/09479 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/bybybd2.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchelseablog.com/">The Living with Legends blog</a> at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Hotel+Chelsea/local/32"><b>Hotel Chelsea</b></a> is reporting that the management group <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/bd%20hotels"><b>BD Hotels</b></a> has been fired from the hotel. Here are some details:<blockquote><p>Legends has managed to obtain a copy of the arbitration filing that will ultimately determine who will manage the Chelsea Hotel. What happened in this case is that BD filed suit against the hotel (essentially Marlene Krauss, since she is the one running the show), alleging that Marlene fired them without cause, and that she has failed to pay them the Incentive Fee that she owes them.</blockquote></p><p>Marlene Krauss fired BD for, along with other things, failing to live up to their duties. Now BD is trying to recoup some juliana 2008-05-05T10:34:37-05:00 40.744607 -73.996857 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/1/152845/4313 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/greenwich_hotelchatter.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p> Yes, it is true, this is not an April Fools' Day joke, we reserved a room tonight for the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Greenwich+Hotel/local/1047"><b>Greenwich Hotel</b></a> opening, via the Greenwich Hotel website and though our reservation went through last week, late yesterday we received word that our reservation had been canceled at the request of the hotel. A phone call to the hotel's PR reps and the hotel itself confirmed that they were not going to let us sleep there tonight. <p> As loyal readers know we have been following the opening of the DeNiro/Drukier hotel project since the middle of 2004. We followed the constantly "coming soon" North Moore Street hotel through <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/11/7/13812/3232/hotels/DeNiro_s_Hotel_Already_Too_Noisy">loud construction</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/7/23948/37289/hotels/Bobby_DeNiro_s_Greenwich_Hotel_Gets_a_Website_And_Is_Now_Taking_Names">name changes</a>, HotelChatter 2008-04-01T16:22:17-05:00 40.719731 -74.010177 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/3/28/16176/0295 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/greenwich1.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Greenwich+Hotel/local/1047"><b>The Greenwich Hotel</b></a> is set to open in four days and we managed to get some snaps of the place today.<p> There wasn't a whole lot of activity going on at the place. It looked like almost all of the exterior construction was finished but we gather there is still some work to be done inside. <p>We peeked in a bit at Ago which occupies the ground floor and there were a couple of dudes in suits milling around. <p>We also spied some people sitting on a windowsill on the first floor but they were definitely not hotel guests. Ho-hum.<p>All in all, this <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/10/11/10592/064/hotels/DeNiro_s_Downtown_Hotel_The_Phone_Tapping_Sessions">"overbaked cookie"</a> looks like it's done to us. We'll find out how the juliana 2008-03-28T16:38:59-05:00 40.719731 -74.010177 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/17/142631/040 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/riverviewdec07.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>Whatever plans hoteliers <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Eric%20Goode">Eric Goode</a> and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Sean%20MacPherson">Sean MacPherson</a> have for the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Riverview/local/923"><b>Hotel Riverview</b></a>, it won't be an easy task to see those plans to fruition.<p>Hotel Riverview residents and its past guests are strongly against the Goode/MacPherson takeover. No surprise here, although if you didn't know it yet, G &amp; M are probably working with BD Hotels--they of the embittered <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Chelsea%20Takeover">Hotel Chelsea takeover</a>.<p>The comments and emails about the historic hotel's transition to a hip West Village boutique hotel are filling up our inboxes and burning up our comments feed, particularly under <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/10/123258/250/hotels/Hotel+Riverview+to+Start+Evicting+Tenants">this story</a> about the pending eviction of tenants.<p>This group is also protesting the notion that the hotel is full of drunks, drug addicts juliana 2008-01-17T15:03:23-05:00 40.738144 -74.009036 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/7/9348/74428 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/standardnyc_november.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We've commented before on the outrageous hotel prices in New York City and noted that this market saw the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/4/101731/983/hotels/U_S_Cities_with_the_Worst_Hotel_Rate_Inflation">biggest increase in rates</a> over the past year. That kind of revenue opportunity makes real estate developers salivate, so <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/11/26/141441/62/hotels/Introducing_The_Thompson_Hotels_Map">Thompson Hotels</a></b> and others have been on a building spree this year. <p>The hotel industry is known for getting caught up in booms and busts though, so this <i>New York Sun</i> article strikes a cautionary tone: <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/67165">Amid Boom, a Fear of Glut in Hotels</a>. <p>There's nothing close to a glut right now, of course. "Many hotels in Manhattan will exceed 90% occupancy for the year, and some are likely to exceed 95% occupancy." But when 20, 30, Tim L. 2007-12-07T12:46:33-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/