In the interview, he talks mostly about how he feels about the state of the hotel industry and not so much about the Manhattan property specifically. But our fave quote was definitely this one:
We spend a lot of time developing a unique concept and a narrative for what we want the hotel to be and then we execute it, painstakingly focusing on ever detail of the process.
"A lot of time" indeed. "Painstaking" is an adjective we'd use to describe what this construction process at CS has seemed like, too.
While the interview didn't say much about the Cooper Square's status or the infamous Peck-Moss feud, our tipsters did! We've got the inside scoop on rates, dates and reports of some, er, interesting reading material found in a room after the jump.
"Billionaire party boy" (er, we'd say "man") Ron Burkle -- who has a staggering amount of money and a small amount of fame among the masses (if only because he was the dude who filed a lawsuit against Anne Hathaway's sleazy ex-boyfriend) -- is reportedly moving into the Bowery Hotel.
That's right, folks: there were two extraordinarily expensive loft penthouses available up on the top floor of the hotel and Guest of a Guest is sayin' the Burkle himself has nabbed one.
The price tag? $30,000 a month.
We sort of expected someone like Lindsay Lohan to move in there, but we suppose he'll wander downstairs and go gallivanting with Lohan and Sam or any of the rich hipster doofuses that hang out at the Bowery.
Guess it's not a party til a sugar daddy-ish type shows up to reign over the hotel. As G of a G so perfectly worded it, "so much excitement hasn't hit a hotel since Dunston checks in."
The Dildo of Darkness [Ed Note: LOLz] had its entryway scaffolding removed on 3rd Avenue this morning.
The Cooper Square Hotel lobby appeared somewhat finished with working light fixtures, too.. at least, that's what we could see through the parts of the windows that were not covered with brown craft paper.
Thanks for the update; but we're sort of like, "meh." We got sick of waiting for you, Cooper Square. We're not those kinda girls. We're out.
Thanks to Jebb who put this snapshot in the HotelChatter Flickr Pool, we now see that the Cooper Square Hotel has curtains. And they aren't fugly rainbows like the Standard NYC! The Cooper Square Hotel is still set to open sometime this fall.
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.
Klaus Ortleib, the man who has scooted in as the third "partner" in the beleaguered Cooper Square Hotel did a feature spot in GQ magazine (sorry, no online link) where he dishes on his favorite things--in and out of hotels.
What we learn about Klaus, the former manager at the uber-cool THOR Hotel on the LES:
· One of nine kids in a Catholic family from Germany. Umm..Fun? · Trained under both Ian Schrager and Andre Balazs. · He loves horses. · He always wears pressed clothes. · $5.99 glasses from Duane Reade make him happy. · He drives a sick ride--a 2008 Range Rover.
Now about the hotel things. Rooms at Cooper Square will all have real live books inside of them. Guests can also expect some good service as this is important to Klaus who once worked at Claridge's in London.
I get very turned off when people say, "I can't do it." What do you mean? I tell everyone at my hotels: Provide everything the guests want except hookers and drugs.
Although, if you like to travel with your own ashtray (and if you do, you're a weirdo!) then be careful as Klaus admits he is a bit of klepto when it comes to cool astray designs.
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.
W Hotels are kicking off something new today with the first of their Wonderlust W All Access gigs at W New York Union Square. Natasha Bedingfield is the first Sony/BMG artist to perform a private concert at the W and rumor has it that other Sony-signed singers will be next--maybe at other W Hotels across the country, but we'll have to wait and see.
The deal for the Natasha Bedingfield concert isn't bad: you get the private concert, two cocktails, late (3pm) check-out and your room, for $989. No cancellations allowed--you lose all your cash--because they don't want the exclusive concert to be any more exclusive than necessary.
The deal requires 24 hour advance reservation so you're probably too late for Natasha, but we'll let you know when we hear about the next gigs.
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