Element and Aloft Are Coming to Manhattan. Someday.
Not to bum you out on a Friday or anything, but we were hearing some sorta-sad whispers about a pack of budget hotels planned for Manhattan that are getting seriously delayed. Specifically, budget hotel guru Sam Chang — the dude behind many, many affordable hotel developments in the NYC area — and his McSam Hotel Group have delayed starting construction on five projects planned for Manhattan. We already knew McSam's Tri-Pack hotel was having some issues and delays, but some of the upcoming hotels are already facing major setbacks before any shovels have hit the dirt.
But what hotels are they? We took a lookie-look at the glorious HVS Hotel Market Overview this morning (which seems to have finally been updated) and noticed McSam has had quite a few irons in the fire, including a Hyatt Place, a Hilton Garden Inn and — no joke — an Element for Manhattan.
Interestingly, the address for the proposed Element is 311 West 39th Street — which puts it just up the street from the Tri-Pack. The HVS report has this bad boy down for a Fall 2010 opening, but who knows what the deal is now. Let's just file this under the "someday" category.
Another interesting little tidbit plucked from the HVS chart: there may be an Aloft coming to the Upper West Side. Seriously. A company called Capital Dreams LLC is apparently planning one for 2296-2308 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, set to have 124 budget-friendly rooms in Jun 2010. Huh. Who knows; there's not a whole lotta hotels up there, so this very well might work.
Thoughts? Gossip? Bubble-bursting facts? Talk about it.
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