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History is hot as two hotels open in Lower Manhattan
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The flowers aren’t here yet, but two new hotels are blooming among the cobblestones of lower Manhattan. The Holiday Inn NYC Lower East Side opened its doors yesterday on Delancey Street, the first-ever hotel in the neighborhood once known for pushcarts and immigrants just off the boat from Europe. Further uptown – and also further upscale – the Small Luxury Hotels of the World on May 15 will open the Refinery Hotel in the historic Garment District, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire in the 1911. In fact, The Refinery is housed in the former Colony Arcade Building, a 12-story property built in 1912. In keeping with its deep roots here, it features a Prohibition-style tea lounge, a signature restaurant, and a rooftop bar with views of the Empire State Building. The desks in the rooms even look like old-fashioned sewing machines. The Refinery is the first new SLH property in the US so far this year. The other new property in the Americas – with a decidedly more modern theme – is the Mukul Luxury Resort and Spa in Guacalito de la Isla, a $250 million, 1670-acre private beach community on Nicaragua’s Emerald Coast. SLH’s other new hotels in 2013 include four properties in Europe and five in Asia. The growth comes on a record year for SLH; in 2012 it added 63 new hotels and saw revenues rise to $119 million. The new European hotels are: The Mirror and the Hotel Cram in Barcelona; the all-suite De.Light Boutique Hotel on Mykonos; and the Porto Kea Suites on the Greek Kea Island. In Asia, SLH this year opened its first property in Kashmir, the Khyber Himalayan Resort and Spa in the skiing destination of Gulmarg. Also new in Asia are the WH Ming Hotel in Shanghai, the Hotel Eclat in Beijing, the. Jetwing Lagoon, Sri Lanka, and the Bo Phut Resort and Spa on the Thai island of Koh Samui. Holiday inn, meanwhile, is in the midst of a $1 billion global brand relaunch, the largest project of its kind in hospitality history, designed to increase quality and consistency across the portfolio. |
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