Lost Hotel Files :: Whatever Happened to Greenhouse 26?

6/19/2008 at 12:15 PM
Tags: Eco-Hotels, Lost Hotel Files, Manhattan Hotels

Starting in Spring 2008, you can wrap yourself in a certified organic towel, lay your head down on a certified organic mattress, breathe in the results of a geothermal heating and cooling system and sip an organic cocktail from an environmentally friendly roof garden, all from [New York's] first green boutique hotel.

This verbiage, posted on TreeHugger last year, sounds lovely, doesn't it? Except that the hotel, Greenhouse 26--like the Rick Nielsen/Hyatt Place project we postulated about earlier this week--doesn't exist, at least not anywhere that we can find it.

The project, to be located in Chelsea, was in the hands of developer Jack Ancona and designer Arpad Baksa, who hoped to earn LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. It would have been the first New York hotel to use a geothermal heating and cooling system and the first hotel in the U.S. to use thermal breaks on room terraces as insulation from hot and cold air, TreeHugger said.

If you've got some details on what happened, let us know about it. Otherwise, this could be yet another case of a tree falling in the forest and no one being around to hear it.

[Photo: TreeHugger]