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7/10/2008 at 1:20 PM
Tags: Hotel Hype, Hotel Construction, Gansevoort Hotels, Gansevoort Park
As excited as we are to have a piece of Gansevoort Hotel on Park Ave South (especially since the Meat Packing District may soon become a "No-Go" Zone), we will probably have to wait a little bit longer than we would like.
A tipster on the street sent us these construction shots...if you can call them construction as it looks like the ground is just being turned over here.
For now, the Gansevoort Park at 29th Street is expected to open its 250 guest rooms in May 2009. Does it take less than a year to build a building from scratch? We're not sure but you bet we'll be watching this one very closely.
Two more pics after the jump.
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by juliana
8/22/2007 at 1:44 PM
Tags: Gansevoort Hotel Group, Hotel News, Hotel Hype, Gansevoort Park, Jason Pomeranc
Way back when, like a year ago, Page Six reported on various hotelier rumors--one being that the Gansevoort Hotel would open a second NYC location on Park Ave South and 29th Street.
Then not too long ago, the DBTH blog reported that this was even more likely. Finally, the Gansevoort people spilled the beans to the NYT confirming that the Gansevoort Park is in the works and a 2009 opening date has been set. The hotel will include:
a 19-story glass-and-limestone building with 225 rooms, which will cost $200 million....
A wide 150-foot-tall glass column containing light-emitting diodes will display mutating colors along the corner of the building's facade, in a nod to four similar 15-foot columns at the Hotel Gansevoort.
Gansevoort Park's top three floors, open to the public, will cover 8,000 square feet. They will include bars, decks and a pool, though the exact configuration is being kept secret, Mr. Achenbaum said, to prevent a competitor from trying to install a similar feature before the hotel is finished in the spring of 2009.
Guest-only areas will include a 3,500-square-foot catering space on the third floor, an outdoor deck and a 2,000-square-foot mezzanine-level spa.
Hmmm...we are sooo curious about this competitor. Could it be Jason Pomeranc?
Nevertheless, we are kind of unexcited about this new Gansevoort. Room prices will probably start at $500 making it another place most people can't afford in NYC. And what's up with the "mutating colors" on the building's exterior? That doesn't seem very Park Ave South to us.
Related Stories:
· Counting on a Hotel to Make a Neighborhood Hot [NY Times]
· Hotel Gansevoort to get second NYC location? [HotelChatter]
· Hot Hotelier News: Manhattan Edition [HotelChatter]
by juliana
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