This summer is shaping up to be the summer of hoteliers in magazines. The latest to join the group is Gregory Peck who gets all serious in the Sur la Terre magazine about his hotelier business (Sorry, no online link available!)
The piece is just a simple Q&A with Peck about how he got started in the hotel world (he used to work for Northstar Capital which funded several Ian Schrager hotels) and what his hotelier philosophy is about.
Oh yeah, and a little bit about Cooper Square. Nothing that we or Klaus Ortleib haven't already told you though.
Yes, you read that correctly. It's totally bare-bones and has no real content on it, but it gives us hope that the hotel will in fact open someday.
The hotel has been delayed forever -- and in the midst of major drama with Gregory Peck, some folks had even speculated that the project would be scrapped altogether around this time last year -- but is all the drama finally over?
Not only does the website now exist, but Down by the Hipster reported today that the hotel has been marketing itself to fall Fashion Week event planners. Does this mean a fall opening is for sure?
Oh! And the most exciting part: Down by the Hipster also posted some renderings of the interior spaces that have been circulating already - check those out after the jump.
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.
On Monday, we let you know that hotelier Gregory Peck was continuing on his own way (without "frenemy/hotel partner" Matt Moss) by opening the Crescent San Francisco in the city's Union Square nabe.
All we knew then was that he was going to redo the old Allison Hotel. Today we have some more detes.
The Crescent Hotel Group (Greg's company) is developing and redesigning the Allison. The Crescent Hotel Group will also manage the hotel once it opens. That opening could happen in nine to twelve months.
Like the Crescent BH, the hotel will have a restaurant and lounge. There will be 83 rooms, some with views into Union Square. With the other rooms presumably, the standard San Fran city view will apply.
While it's unclear whether San Francisco will be getting an Alcatraz Hotel or not, the city by the Bay will have a new hotel in Union Square from hotelier Gregory Peck.
As we mentioned last summer Peck was looking to spin off his Crescent Beverly Hills hotel and while we were hedging our bets that Palm Springs would be the place to do so, it turns out Peck is headed to San Fran.
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).
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]
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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