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Hotel Deathwatch
An Atlanta Hotel Goes Down The Drain
October 31, 2008 at 2:40 PM | 1 Comment
In the past few years, Atlanta Georgia's Buckhead neighborhood has become the place for new luxury hotel projects, everyone from the Ritz-Carlton, St Regis, Sheraton, W, InterContinental, Westin, JW Marriott is either building a hotel or has a location there already.
The development which really put Buckhead on the map is called Streets of Buckhead, and has high-end shopping, restaurants and condos in addition to Starwood Capital's 1 Hotel & Baccarat Hotel, both of which were to include residences. Now it seems both of those hotels have been taken out of the development.
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1 Hotels Update :: Barry Sternlicht Loves Word Play and Mind Games
Where: United StatesSeptember 29, 2008 at 4:41 PM | 0 Comments
We know how Barry Sternlicht loves to surprise and create puns and play around with words: he named W Hotels because it's the only letter of the alphabet with more than one syllable, and W's whole marketing is based around putting W's in their promotions and creating words based on W.
So we shouldn't have been too surprised when 1 Hotels updated their website to remove the Paris and Mammoth Mountain locations, but left the Seattle, NYC, Washington DC and Scottsdale locations and added a new page about One - even though we've heard numerous rumors about the brand being put on indefinite hold.
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Hotel DeathWatch :: Starwood Capital's 1 Hotel Brand Turning Into Just One Hotel
July 28, 2008 at 1:36 PM | 2 Comments
With a very (very) heavy heart, we are reporting today on something from our sources: Starwood Capital's 1 Hotel & Residences brand is being substantially scaled back.
We mean like.. Instead of the 6 locations listed on their website, and an additional three locations announced since then (Atlanta-Buckhead, Cleveland, Ohio & Vancouver, BC), the world will only see one or two 1 Hotels open in the next few years, as the rest have been permanently or temporarily put on hold due to market conditions.
Our sources tell us that only the Vancouver, BC location and New York City location are still scheduled to be built, although the NYC location will probably not be in Bryant Park.
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A Look at the Uber-Green Goodness Expected to Ooze Out of The 1 Hotel Vancouver Island
June 26, 2008 at 4:30 PM | 0 Comments
So two days ago we briefly reported how Starwood Capital and Marine Drive Properties is developing the 1 Hotel & Residences Vancouver Island in British Columbia (that would be Canada), within the Wyndansea development, but it took a day for us to realize just how cool this 1 Hotel location is.
Hotel Openings
Hotel News Briefs :: More Hotels on the Horizon
June 24, 2008 at 5:34 PM | 0 Comments
· CitizenM Opens in Amsterdam: Tonight is the first night for guests at the CitizenM Hotel near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. We have a spy scoping the place so stay tuned for a full review.
· The Artisan Hotel: This hotel in downtown El Paso is finally set to open on August 1 even though the owner has already put it back on the market.
· Palm Springs To Get a Hyatt Place: The developers of an upcoming Hard Rock Palm Springs is going to put in a Hyatt Place and a Marriott Residence Inn.
· 1 Hotel Set for Vancouver Island: Sternlicht and Co. are going ahead with plans for a 1 Hotel & Residences Vancouver Island at Wyndansea. The place will have 180 condo-units and 95 beach and golf villas.
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Atlanta's Streets of Starwood Capital, er... Streets of Buckhead
June 16, 2008 at 11:30 AM | 0 Comments
1 Hotel on the Left, Baccarat on the Right
Atlanta's Buckhead community has had a lot of development lately. It's quickly becoming the Beverly Hills of Atlanta, with luxury developments springing up left and right.
One of the biggest developments is the Streets of Buckhead, which is a mixed-use development made up of luxury apartments, high-end retailers, an office building and three hotels. Two of these hotels are confirmed to be a 1 Hotel & Residences and Baccarat Hotel & Residences, both of which are from Starwood Capital.
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More 1 Hotels Are Coming To New York and Cleveland
May 21, 2008 at 11:57 AM | 0 Comments
On the left is the 1 Hotel & Residences NYC, on the right is the 1 Hotel & Residences Cleveland
After a long silence there is finally word from Barry Sternlicht's 1 Hotel and Residences for not one, but two projects! 1 Hotel & Residences New York, and 1 Hotel & Residences Cleveland (yes, that's right, Cleveland).
As we reported previously, the 1 Hotel & Residences New York is aiming to be one of NYC's first LEED Certified hotels, and will be in green company by being across the street from Bank of America's new high rise - New York City's first LEED Certified office building and at the foot of Bryant Park. After initially announcing the project back in 2006, it seems as though ground will finally break in August, with an opening date in late 2010 or early 2011.
And now, for the big news - the first new 1 Hotel & Residences location to be announced since 2006 - 1 Hotel & Residences Cleveland! While the location may not be as high roller like Miami, or Los Angeles or Baltimore (not like we're hinting Barry) - it's going to be located in America's first LEED-ND Certified development called The Flats East Bank. The 1 Hotel & Residences Cleveland will have 150 hotel rooms, 50 condos and of course the obligatory B.R. Guest restaurant.
And lastly, we just found out that 1% of all revenues from the 1 Hotels throughout the world will be donated to local environmental groups. Ah, yes, just another reason why we love Barry Sternlicht so much.
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Even Sternlicht's 1 Hotel Seattle Has Difficulties
February 29, 2008 at 1:51 PM | 2 Comments
There has been alot of speculation over the past few months as to what exactly is going on with the 1 Hotel Seattle being built by Barry Sternlicht's Starwood Capital Group. Since late August 07 construction has stopped on the site, and now its nothing but a great big gaping hole in the ground.
What happened? Could Sternlicht, one of the most prolific hotel developers of this generation have gone in over his head? Fortunately, no. But Barry, with heavy hearts we officially welcome you to the world of building a condo-hotel in today's credit market
According to today's Seattle Times:
Construction of the luxury 1 Hotel & Residences is on hold until at least late summer while the $200 million downtown Seattle project undergoes a redesign to become more appealing to lenders, its developer says.
The proposed redesign will eliminate 132 of the project's 176 individually owned condo-hotel suites, Brenneke said. They will be replaced with 192 smaller, conventional hotel rooms.
Helping matters is the fact that the retail and commercial space in the building is already fully leased, and 20 of the 51 condos have already been sold. Looks like only a minor delay here folks! Occupancy will hopefully be early 2010.
Phew! We knew Barry still had it in him!
[Photo: SeattleST.com]
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1 Hotels in DC and ATL Revealed
February 19, 2008 at 4:05 PM | 0 Comments
1 Hotels mastermind Barry Sternlicht seems to be keeping the entire world of hotel-chitecture busy. Not long after we rustled up a rendering of the 1 Hotel Bryant Park in NYC, did a tipster send along looks at Sternlicht's new projects in DC and Atlanta.
In Washington, the rendering looks exactly like the hotelier said it would back in September 2007. And Andrew Calvo at Passions of a Zealot thinks that makes this property a prototype for the brand--the 1 Hotel in Seattle notwithstanding.
The Atlanta property looks a bit different. (We've got a photo after the jump.) Could that be because the city is much less pedestrian friendly? Whatever the reason, it won't be the only Sternlicht game in town. He's planning to open his first Baccarat Hotel in the city in the next couple years.
Related Stories:
· Rendering of 1 Hotel DC [Passions of a Zealot]
· 1 Hotels coverage [HotelChatter]
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1 and Crillon and Baccarat Hotels Oh My!
February 1, 2008 at 12:02 PM | 0 Comments
As if we didn't have enough announcements this week with Edition and XP Hotels Barry Sternlicht, the former Starwood Hotels exec, has announced that the first of planned Baccarat Hotel Chain will debut in Atlanta, Georgia.
Keep in mind Sternlicht is already hard at work on his 1 Hotels brand and the Crillon brand.
Yup, this is about the time when our heads start spinning.
Starwood Stalker Andrew Calvo at Passions of Zealot as usual has all the details.
This Baccarat project will be the first location within the Continental United States and will also include a Baccarat Crystal Boutique - Georgia's first Baccarat location, and America's 12th Baccarat Boutique location. It will contain 100 hotel rooms and 42 condos - a very small project....
The hotel will actually open in the Streets of Buckhead development at Peachtree and East Paces Ferry Roads. It will include at least 2 hotels, residential buildings and luxury retail stores, as well as restaurants. Kinda like a city within a city.
Construction on the development has started but not on the hotel. We're guessing it will be 2010 before you see it.
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1 Hotel and Residences Shows Its Face
December 3, 2007 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments
Finally! Thanks to the obsessiveness of one Andrew Calvo we have a first look at the planned 1 Hotel & Residences, the new hotel chain from former Starwood Hotels CEO Barry Sternlicht.
This rendering is of the Bryant Park location (it's the new building.) Calvo was able to find the renderings by looking up the hotel's previous name before Starwood Capital (Sternlicht's new company) became involved - The View at Bryant Park.
He's got the full detes over at his Passions of a Zealot blog including what he thinks is the estimated opening date. But it's a long ways off, sometime in 2010 or 2011.
Related Stories:
· 1 Hotel Renderings [Passions of a Zealot]
· 1 Hotel Seattle Gets Construction Started [HotelChatter]
· '1' Hotel To Add a Little More Green in Bryant Park [HotelChatter]
Hoteliers
Starwood Founder Bringing Sexy Hotels Back
October 1, 2007 at 3:15 PM | 3 Comments
After making a mint at Starwood Hotels--including creating the W brand--Barry Sternlicht could've happily rode off into the hotel developer sunset, free from the prying eyes of people like us. But somehow, he decided to get back into the hotel game: He's got three hotel brands in the works.
The biggest deal in our mind is the "1" brand, scheduled to debut in Seattle in 2009. The aim is to make the hotel LEED certified as a green building, as is the plan with other "1" hotels in the future. Other properties are in the works for New York and DC.
The NYC project, the New York Times reports:
[Will] be called the "1" Hotel and Residences at Bryant Park, it will have dedicated hotel rooms through the 18th floor and residential units on the 19th through 31st floors. It is expected to open in the first half of 2010, and is being designed by Morris Adjmi.
But the brand won't focus on residential/hotel hybrids:
Mr. Sternlicht's third "1" hotel, in Washington at 22nd and M Streets, N.W., is in partnership with the local Perseus Realty Group. The hotel, which will have 180 rooms and no residential component, is expected to break ground in mid-2008 and open in 2010. More will follow in Scottsdale, Ariz.; Mammoth Lakes, Calif; and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The first international "1" hotel will be in Paris.
Beyond all the hype around this brand, we'll also have to keep an eye on Sternlicht's other hotels: He's also at work on Baccarat Hotels and Resorts and Crillon, both of which could open soon.
Related Stories:
· Starwood Founder Makes a New Splash [NYT]
· 1 Hotels coverage [HotelChatter]
[Photo: Sienna Architecture Company]
