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Shangri-La Hotel New York to Begins ConstructionSunday, October 21, 2007
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group, announced it will open the Shangri-La Hotel, New York in 2010. The group signed development and operating agreements with RFR Holding LLC, and a client of ING Clarion Partners, to construct a 206-room luxury hotel in the Park Avenue corridor of Midtown Manhattan, and will operate the property under a long-term hotel management agreement. The hotel will be in a new 64-story tower adjacent to the landmarked Seagram Building, built on the site of the former YWCA building at 610 Lexington Avenue. It will have a dedicated entrance on 53rd Street between Park and Lexington avenues. The unique design for the slender 709-foot-tall tower calls for exterior columns incorporated into the building’s faceted curtain wall, using low iron glass to achieve a crystal clear appearance of the to (read more)
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