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Will the Times Square Tri-Pack Open as a Two-Pack?

Where: W 39th St. [map], New York, NY, United States
March 12, 2009 at 9:26 AM | by Jenna | 7 Comments

Yesterday, we swung by 39th Street in Manhattan to check on progress of the Times Square Tri-Pack hotel — that is, the Candlewood Suites, Hampton Inn and Holiday Inn Express hotel trio opening up inside a single structure near Times Square — and things are progressing. Well, mostly progressing.

The Hampton Inn and Candlewood Suites are both looking good from what we could see: the lobbies seemed to be nearing completion, signage was up, and the Hampton Inn even had some flowers on the still-under-construction front desk. Also, curtains were up on all the guest room windows! Good sign!

But the Holiday Inn Express had no signage at all, and when we asked an off duty construction worker when he thought the three hotels would open, he shrugged and told us the Hampton and Candlewood should be up and running in two or three weeks — but then he pointed to the Holiday Inn Express and said, "but definitely not that one."

Well, as Meatloaf once sang: "two outta three ain't bad."

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  1. juliana

    HotelChatter Editor

    TriPak Hotel

    I am still trying to wrap my brain around this!
    March 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM
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  1. mytwocents

    HotelChatter Member

    Two-pack?

    "The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."  Tupac Shakur
    March 13, 2009 at 11:11 AM
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  1. AndrewC

    HotelChatter Contributing Editor

    narrow

    how narrow must those rooms be? i sure hope that they arent planning on putting one room per window in the front. that would be.. um. tight.
    March 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM
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  1. hoteldesigner

    HotelChatter Member

    Tri-Pack's Owner, Architect?

    Re Times Sq Tri-Pack (great nickname btw) Does anyone know who is the developer, who is the architect?  I have a couple of guesses of course, but facts speak louder than hunches.
    March 15, 2009 at 1:41 AM
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  1. Jenna

    HotelChatter Member

    @hoteldesigner

    Yes! The architect is Gene Kaufman, and the owner (according to a New York Times article published in February '08) is — or was going to be — Gemini Real Estate Advisors.
    March 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM
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  1. luciferbumps

    HotelChatter Member

    Owners of Tripack

    I am pretty sure that Gemini backed out. I think it may be split between Packard Hotels and another company.
    Packard owns Hotel Reserve on Maiden Lane and One of the New Wyndhams in NYC.
    March 26, 2009 at 8:00 AM
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  1. insider12

    HotelChatter Member

    Tripack

    Packard is the managing company for this project and also manages the Hotel Reserve on Maiden and Nassau Streets downtown.  I believe McSam owns.
    March 27, 2009 at 8:01 PM
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