An insider says the hotel will soft-open in late Fall and the restaurant will follow in January 2009.
As we found out from Eater last month, the Standard will have an 18th floor restaurant with 187 table seats, two bars with 42 seats and a total capacity of 229.
As for the rooms themselves, we're still not sure what they are going to look like or what they are going to include.
All this uncertainty coupled with a late Fall 2008 opening date makes the opening feel like forever to wait.
At the start of the year we put out our annual New York City Openings Preview where we round-up some of the hotly anticipated hotels for the upcoming year. Since there's been a lot of buzz lately on a few of these properties we thought it was time for a progress report.
· Thompson LES: A February 2008 opening date has come and gone. The hotel is now expected to open in "Spring." However, it might be worth the wait. A giant photographic mural of Andy Warhol is expected to cover the bottom of the rooftop pool.
· Thompson Smyth: Uh-oh. One step forward, five steps back in Thompson Hotel Land. The Tribeca outpost is now expected for Winter 2009.
Each year as little girls and boys around the world are behaving themselves in hopes of getting a sackload of presents under the tree on Christmas morning, we here at HotelChatter are culling together our annual New York City Hotel Openings Preview. This is where we take a look at what is on the horizon for tourists heading to NYC in the year ahead.
According to the NYC & Company, New York City will add 20,000 newly built and renovated hotel rooms by the end of 2010, with most of that happening in downtown and even in outer boroughs like Brooklyn and Queens. With so many rooms coming online in the coming years we hope it means that competition will drive prices lower for hotel guests. We are still skeptical of that happening and wonder -- with higher per room development costs (sometimes over $1 million a room!) and average guest rates hovering above $600, will 2008 be the year that Manhattan hotels see a developer pull back or a guest revolt? Probably not, this is still NYC.
So now it's time to rundown the most buzzworthy 2008 New York City hotel openings--according to us, of course. 2007 brought us plenty of non-starters and delayed projects, but dark horse Six Columbus actually opened to good reviews and $200/prices. So just remember as you read our predictions, anything can happen in the NYC hotel game.
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Each year as little girls and boys around the world are behaving themselves in hopes of getting a sackload of presents under the tree on Christmas morning, we here at HotelChatter are culling together our annual New York City Hotel Openings Preview. This is where we take a look at what is on the horizon for tourists heading to NYC in the year ahead.
