The Plaza Hotel has reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation, bringing landmark luxury back to Manhattan.
“They say this place is the world’s most famous hotel,” said doorman Freddy Davila, who worked for the hotel for 15 years before it closed in 2005. As he welcomed hundreds of visitors up the red-carpeted steps and through [...]

Hold the sugar.
That’s the message developers of the old Domino Sugar plant in Brooklyn appear to be sending with their renderings of the $1.2 billion waterfront condo complex.
The plan to convert the former Williamsburg refinery leaves out the iconic illuminated sign that reads, “Domino Sugar,” which generations have grown accustomed to seeing off [...]

The developers of a proposed 160-room hotel on the site of Tacoma’s old Columbia-Heidelberg Brewery say they’re redesigning the hotel after its preliminary design failed to impress historic preservationists on a city board.
Han Kim, principal at Seattle’s Hotel Concepts, said Monday that he’s hired Albany, Ore., architect Don Johnson to modify the initial design to [...]

Starwood Capital Group today announced that the recently launched “1” Hotel and Residences, the world’s first luxury, eco-friendly global hotel brand, will open New York City’s first five-star green hotel on West 40th Street in Manhattan, across from Bryant Park. The “1” Hotel and Residences will be part of a proposed 31-story mixed-use green tower [...]

THE Keller Hotel stands on the corner of Barrow and West Streets, a sober visitor from another era, garbed in a meticulous six-story neo-Classical suit, silently witnessing the whiz of cars on the West Side Highway and the pounding of spandex-clad joggers on the sidewalk.
The hotel, built in 1898 as sailors’ lodgings, was one [...]