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Know Your Manhattan Hoteliers

Ask and you shall receive. In a story the other week about the possible cold war thaw between feuding hoteliers Gregory Peck and Matt Moss (actually, that was just wishful thinking. The frenemy war rages on still), we asked for a copy of the Page Six magazine featuring some of NYC's hottest hoteliers.

And a kind soul sent us a copy!

In it, you see Jason Pomeranc (with ever-present arm candy/fashion publicist/girlfriend Ali Wise), Matt Moss and Greg Peck (totally did not pose together), scary Sean MacPherson and partner Eric Goode, the ever-dapper Andre Balazs, grunge hotelier Alex Calderwood of the Ace Hotel brand and chefs/restauaranteurs Todd English and Ken Friedman.

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The Cooper Square Hotel :: Will It Ever Open?

Not much new to report here folks. Cooper Square Hotel is still not open. And it still has no website.

So we're highly skeptical of a late summer opening which was the last predicted date for the hotel (after the April/May 2008 time frame came and went)

Indeedy, we are even hearing some rumblings of a late fall opening, leading us to ask "Will we even care about this hotel when it finally does open?" Eh...we probably will. Afterall, we still got giddy when Six Columbus finally opened.

On another note, we hear Page Six Magazine managed to get the feuding hoteliers Matt Moss and Gregory Peck together for an article in its latest issue. Could this be the end of the cold war between the former besties?

(PS. We live in LA now. Not having the Post delivered to us daily is almost as bad as not having Dunkin' Donuts. Almost. Send us a copy of the article if you got one).

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PM Linkage: Guess What? Matt Moss and Gregory Peck Don't Like Each Other

Dear Diary,

We can't believe it! Matt Moss and Gregory Peck, once besties growing up on Long Island, are like totally never speaking to each other again.

We kinda figured there was some trouble brewing when we interviewed Gregory Peck over the summer about the Cooper Square Hotel and he couldn't put us in touch with Matt Moss, only Matt's publicist. And then Matt's publicist was like "Whatever!" And then we had to rush off to P.E.

Anyways, the New York Observer totally outed the fight today and all these grown-up investors are like really POed that Moss isn't keeping them in the loop.

But like OMG, Matt Moss totally went behind Greg Peck's back and is starting MK Hotels with Klaus Ortleib and this is the group that will run the hotel. This is exactly what our Ouija board exclusively told us!! Major Dramz! But that's all for now. Gotta sing along to High School Musical. Luvya!

In other news safe for your diary:
· Palms Place will have celebrity residents like Hulk Hogan, Paul Stanley of KISS and Jessica Simpson. Well, we didn't say A-list celebrities. [The Vegas Eye]
· The Water Club at the Borgata will open in June. [Newsday]
· Looks like Diablo Cody celebrated her Oscar at the Four Seasons. We'd know that flower anywhere. [Egotastic]
· NYC might get a Ferry Building Hotel! [NYT]
· SNL coming to Vegas? [Rush&Molloy]

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Matt Moss Thinks Tenement Laundry is Something You Want to See When Paying $500+ A Night

We must have missed this over the MLK Holiday but we were recently googling the drama-plagued Cooper Square Hotel yesterday and we came across this article in the NY Times from January 20th.

The topic is how NYC developers are working around tenants who refuse to move or be relocated. This is actually something that Gregory Peck told us about when he talked Cooper Square last summer.

The hotel is attached to a four-story tenement building which will not be torn down and will instead continue to house its long-time residents on the top two floors. The Cooper Square Hotel will keep offices on the second floor and basement.

We are a bit torn here because no one wants to see long-term residents booted for a large vibrator-shaped hotel but Matt Moss might be overreaching about his hotel guests' expectations.

Mr. Moss says he considers it an asset that guests in the $100 million hotel, which opens this summer, may peer down on a tenement roof where laundry is being hung out to dry.

"That's the kind of thing people want to see," he said.

Um...no. Granted this is NYC and most hotel room views are of a brick wall so looking at laundry could be an improvement. Yet saying that guests paying $500+ a night would want to see tenement laundry might be stretching it a bit.

Also, we think Matt may not have quite understood the whole hotel voyeurism trend. It's the guests who are supposed to be the objects of voyeurism, not the residents next door.

We wanna know what you think. Is laundry on the line an asset now when staying on the Bowery? Put your thoughts here.

[Photo: MDash]

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Snapshot: Cooper Square Looks Almost Done

Flickr member Jebb of the East Village Podcast has dropped in a new photo of the Cooper Square Hotel in Manhattan. The exterior looks almost done but with a string of recent hotel delays affecting NYC and the rest of the hotel world, we don't think Cooper Square will open before Spring. But have no fear, we'll be keeping a close eye on the "enormous vibrator." (Jebb's words not ours.)

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He's Not Imaginary or Invisible Anymore: Matt Moss Speaks Out on Cooper Square

In a New York article, Matt Moss finally weighed in on the Cooper Square Hotel, a project he's developed with his frenemy Gregory Peck.

The hotel's backers are looking to buy three adjacent lots and the residents are to say the least, concerned. As you know, this is a pretty feisty bunch and they have resisted the hotel from the very beginning.

But what has them really concerned now is the planned second-floor terrace which ends just 30-inches from an apartment building next door. Thus they are presuring the community board to withhold a liquor license until the hotel can ease the residents' fears. And here is where Matt Moss speaks:

"The block association gave us a list of their concerns," says developer Matthew Moss of the Peck Moss Group. "We agreed right off the bat to half of them or so, but some of the things they wereasking for were a little difficult for us to agree to" and those are items that are still being discussed.

Still Moss agreed to soundproof the windows and air conditioners in nearby apartments so the residents won't have to deal with hotel party noise. The only glitch is that the landlord in the East 5th Street apartment building won't let installations proceed.

And the saga continues. We bet Gregory Peck is just relieved his name wasn't mentioned this time around.

Related Stories:
· Dubai on the Bowery [NY Mag]
· Gregory Peck and Matt Moss: They was just frontin' [HotelChatter]
· Gregory Peck Talks Cooper Square [HotelChatter]

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Gregory Peck and Matt Moss: They Was Just Frontin'

Cooper Square Hotel, September 2007.

A while back we wrote about how hotelier Gregory Peck was definitely still involved in the Cooper Square Hotel project but as we did, we noticed some obvious cracks in the friendship/work relationship with co-developer Matt Moss.

We couldn't get Matt Moss to speak with us and even verifying the Peck-Moss partnership with Moss' people was somewhat of a struggle. Nevertheless, we learned that Peck was still in on an ownership level and that Cooper Square would be opening sometime in April 2008.

But then we received a tip from HotelChatter reader Low Pro who says that Matt Moss is pursuing another partnership with Cooper Square's general manager Klaus Ortlieb.

I know for a fact that Matt Moss and Klaus Ortlieb were pursuing a deal here in NYC under the company name of MK Hotels. According to a friend who went to Penn with Moss, they are planning on pursuing deals on the strength of Klaus' reputation with Andre [Balazs] and THOR and Matt's experience first with Related and then as a strip mall developer in Long Island.

As for what's happened between Moss and Peck, Low Pro says its a united front strictly for the hotel opening but that they are not partners anymore. Who knows if Low Pro's info is spot on, but if it is, it sure does fill in some holes. Either way, don't expect anymore hotels from PeckMoss ever again.

As for MKHotels, we already found a website under that name but its for Molinaro Koger and they offer hotel real estate advisory and brokerage services. So we're thinking whatever MK Hotels deals are going on are probably still in the pipe dream stage.

Whose team are you on--Team Peck or Team MossKlaus? Comment here.

Related Stories:
· Gregory Peck Talks Cooper Square [HotelChatter]