wigstheone
Mar 20, 02, 4:59 am
Three months after opening its first hotel in New York City, Hampton Inns, a midprice subsidiary of the Hilton Hotels Corporation, is adding four properties in the city, three in Manhattan and one in Queens. Like the earlier Hampton, all four hotels are to be built from the ground up, rather than converted from other hotel brands or other buildings.
Although Hampton has 1,180 hotels in 49 states (all except Hawaii) and in a sprinkling of foreign countries, it currently has none in Manhattan.
Like about 95 percent of all the hotels that bear the Hampton name, the hotels in New York City will be franchises. While the company would not disclose the cost of the individual projects, it said the five New York City hotels, including the Hampton that opened in Queens near Kennedy International Airport at the beginning of the year, had a total cost of about $130 million.
The first Hampton hotel in Manhattan is scheduled to be a 144-room property in Chelsea at 108 West 24th Street, between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, which has a prospective opening date in October. A 65-room property at 320 Pearl Street, near the South Street Seaport, is expected to open in December. A 136-room hotel at 116 West 31st Street, near Herald Square, is to open in May 2003. The Chelsea and Herald Square buildings will be 19 stories.
The 220-room hotel scheduled for Queens, which was designed by the architectural firm of Cherniahivsky & Associates of Philadelphia, is expected to open in 2004, at 102-10 East Ditmars Boulevard, across from La Guardia Airport. Its franchise owner, Field Hotel Associates of King of Prussia, Pa., also owns the 216-room Hampton Inn-Kennedy Airport.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/business/20REAL.html
Although Hampton has 1,180 hotels in 49 states (all except Hawaii) and in a sprinkling of foreign countries, it currently has none in Manhattan.
Like about 95 percent of all the hotels that bear the Hampton name, the hotels in New York City will be franchises. While the company would not disclose the cost of the individual projects, it said the five New York City hotels, including the Hampton that opened in Queens near Kennedy International Airport at the beginning of the year, had a total cost of about $130 million.
The first Hampton hotel in Manhattan is scheduled to be a 144-room property in Chelsea at 108 West 24th Street, between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, which has a prospective opening date in October. A 65-room property at 320 Pearl Street, near the South Street Seaport, is expected to open in December. A 136-room hotel at 116 West 31st Street, near Herald Square, is to open in May 2003. The Chelsea and Herald Square buildings will be 19 stories.
The 220-room hotel scheduled for Queens, which was designed by the architectural firm of Cherniahivsky & Associates of Philadelphia, is expected to open in 2004, at 102-10 East Ditmars Boulevard, across from La Guardia Airport. Its franchise owner, Field Hotel Associates of King of Prussia, Pa., also owns the 216-room Hampton Inn-Kennedy Airport.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/20/business/20REAL.html