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.
According to the NYC & Company, New York City is adding nearly 5,000 new hotel rooms to its current inventory of 70,723 by the end of 2007. That is a lot of hotel rooms, right?
Regardless, we have way too much fun following all the supposed NYC hotel openings, and once in awhile these places even toss us a bone and sell rooms for half price during their opening phase--yeah, that is still about $250 a night in Manhattan. So it is time to rundown the most buzzworthy 2007 New York City hotel openings--according to us, of course. As always, these are scheduled openings, and scheduled can quickly turn into delayed or even dead projects.
Read more to get our prognostications on six Manhattan hotel openings HotelChatter will be keeping a watchful eye on in 07. We will update the story throughout the year as hoteliers open or delay their NYC openings.
On that list, Blue Moon Hotel and Vikram's Night Hotel have both managed to get heads in beds, while DeNiro's Downtown Hotel and Loft Hotel Tribeca have both significantly pushed back their openings, though there is still a shot both will open by the end of 2006.
Pomeranc's Pomeranc's Six Columbus is supposed to open this fall, maybe even as early as November, but don't hold your breath. Downtown, Allen Street aka Thompson LES project seems to have started faster than anticipated, and the folks over there are anticipating a Summer 2007 opening. (More on Pomeranc World tomorrow.)
Oh, and there is this little place called the Gramercy Park Hotel that we might have mentioned in passing when it opened last month.
Here are the other new, or soon to open New York City hotels currently on our radar:
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by juliana
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.
