Hartz Mountain to break ground on TriBeCa hotel.Hartz Mountain Industries Hartz Mountain Industries (HMI) is a private family owned and operated company known for its vast real estate holdings in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan Area. Its former parent Hartz Mountain Corporation (of pet products fame), was founded by German-American businessman Max , Inc., has announced plans for the development of TriBeCa's first major hotel - the TriBeCa Grand - to be located on a triangular plot bounded by Sixth Avenue and White, Walker and Church streets. The building site, in the heart of burgeoning TriBeCa, is several blocks south of its sister property, the trend-setting SoHo Grand Hotel, which radically altered the Downtown hotel scene with its opening two years ago this month. Construction on the eight-story, 210-room TriBeCa Grand will begin in October, with the opening scheduled for Spring, 2000. Most recently occupied by a parking lot and a plant nursery, the parcel cost $15 million, with construction estimated at an additional $35 million. The developer acquired the property, already commercially zoned for hotel use, on an "as of right" basis. "The hotel's design will totally blend with elements of the district," said Hartz Mountain President Emanuel Stern. "We are aesthetically sensitive to the existing structures and have designed a building in keeping with the neighborhood." The facade facade (fəsäd`), exterior face or wall of a building. The term implies ordered placement of its openings and other features and thus seems inapplicable to a wall without design. of the TriBeCa Grand, which was designed in-house In-house In the context of general equities, keeping an activity within the firm. For example, rather than go to the marketplace and sell a security for a client to anyone, an attempt is made to find a buyer to complete the transaction with the firm. at Hartz Mountain Industries, will feature the large, squared windows and decorative cornices long associated with the area's "cast-iron" manufacturing buildings. Among the building's architectural highlights will be a triangular interior atrium atrium (ā`trēəm), term for an interior court in Roman domestic architecture and also for a type of entrance court in early Christian churches. The Roman atrium was an unroofed or partially roofed area with rooms opening from it. rising from the ground floor to the roof and topped with a translucent translucent slightly penetrable by light rays. skylight skylight Roof opening covered with translucent or transparent glass or plastic designed to admit daylight. Skylights have found wide application admitting steady, even light in industrial, commercial, and residential buildings, especially those with a northern orientation. . The company is in the process of selecting a designer for the hotel's interiors. Stern said he expected the TriBeCa Grand to complement the SoHo Grand - popular with the fashion, music and entertainment industry - with a strong appeal to business travelers through state-of-the-art business facilities. The TriBeCa Grand will aim for an upscale clientele, with rooms rates slated to start at $349. "From the outside, the building will look like it's always been there," Stern said, "But inside, it will be completely 'wired' with high-speed Internet See broadband. access, fax machines and digital television in every room." In addition to 210 spacious rooms, averaging 330 square feet, with an undetermined number of larger suites, the hotel will offer a business center, fitness center, restaurant, bar/lounge and 24-hour room service. On the lower level, a 100-seat screening room for feature films will also be available for use as a meeting space and lecture hall lecture hall n → sala de conferencias; (UNIV) → aula lecture hall lecture n → amphithéâtre m , or for catered events. There will also be two additional meeting spaces. Like the SoHo Grand, the TriBeCa Grand will be entirely owned and operated by Hartz Mountain. |
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