Posted Sep 13, 2013, 12:54 PM
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1454444
Hotels near Ground Zero find room to grow
Since Sept. 11 attacks, hotels in lower Manhattan have seen a six-fold increase
By Matt Chaban
September 13, 2013
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When you build on hallowed ground, you treat it as such.
An empty lot across the street from Ground Zero will soon become the city’s newest Courtyard by Marriott. But instead of the budget-friendly, cookie-cutter lodgings synonymous with the chain, the developers behind 133 Greenwich St. are promising something striking.
Designed by Danny Forster, the 30-story tower will boast a faceted façade that makes the 317-room hotel look like it floats above the National September 11 Memorial.
“I’m a New Yorker, so to me, this is the most important site in the city,” says Jack A.Hidary, principal at Hidrock Realty and co-developer of 133 Greenwich St. “It’s not just any piece of real estate. It’s the World Trade Center.”
While it took more than a decade for the World Trade Center to take shape, Hidary will complete his project in just 14 months, hoping to capitalize on the gorwing crowds downtown.
His team is among dozens of developers driving a hotel boom in lower Manhattan, a neighborhood written off as a ghost town 12 years ago.
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Construction has begun on a Courtyard by Marriott at 133 Greenwich St. across from Ground Zero.
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