Are You Sitting Down? Gansevoort on Park Ave South Set for 2009
Way back when, like a year ago, Page Six reported on various hotelier rumors--one being that the Gansevoort Hotel would open a second NYC location on Park Ave South and 29th Street.
Then not too long ago, the DBTH blog reported that this was even more likely. Finally, the Gansevoort people spilled the beans to the NYT confirming that the Gansevoort Park is in the works and a 2009 opening date has been set. The hotel will include:
a 19-story glass-and-limestone building with 225 rooms, which will cost $200 million....
A wide 150-foot-tall glass column containing light-emitting diodes will display mutating colors along the corner of the building's facade, in a nod to four similar 15-foot columns at the Hotel Gansevoort.
Gansevoort Park's top three floors, open to the public, will cover 8,000 square feet. They will include bars, decks and a pool, though the exact configuration is being kept secret, Mr. Achenbaum said, to prevent a competitor from trying to install a similar feature before the hotel is finished in the spring of 2009.
Guest-only areas will include a 3,500-square-foot catering space on the third floor, an outdoor deck and a 2,000-square-foot mezzanine-level spa.
Hmmm...we are sooo curious about this competitor. Could it be Jason Pomeranc?
Nevertheless, we are kind of unexcited about this new Gansevoort. Room prices will probably start at $500 making it another place most people can't afford in NYC. And what's up with the "mutating colors" on the building's exterior? That doesn't seem very Park Ave South to us.
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· Counting on a Hotel to Make a Neighborhood Hot [NY Times]
· Hotel Gansevoort to get second NYC location? [HotelChatter]
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