Novotel Times Square Lodge has forever closed as a final result of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The hotel officially shut its doors just right before Christmas, in accordance to point out information.
The Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification (Alert) Facts, up-to-date on December 18, 2020 and made community on January 6, 2020, reads: “Due to the resort owner’s determination to cancel the management deal, the company will no extended operate the resort as of the close of small business, [December 23, 2020]. This will effect a complete of 225 workers. The resort remains briefly closed to the community. Of the 225 overall impacted staff, 137 ended up earlier furloughed on [March 15, 2020] and eight have been forever divided on [July 31, 2020].
According to Business Observer, Paris-based mostly Accor designed the 35-tale, 480-place hotel at 226 West 52nd Street in 1984. Accor owned the residence right up until 2012, when it was bought to Apollo World wide Administration and Chartres Lodging Group for about $94 million, as noted by The True Deal. Accor stayed on as the supervisor as portion of the deal, and the new house owners introduced a $118 million renovation of the house.
Earlier in the 12 months, as noted by our sister publication Luxurious Vacation Advisor, The Moments Square Edition closed close to August 13, 2020, just a 12 months after its a great deal-anticipated opening. The Omni Berkshire Location, positioned in close proximity to Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, also completely near as a outcome of the pandemic, according to Luxurious Journey Advisor.
The Business Observer report provides that other attributes to shut include, in September, the 44-tale Hilton Times Square and, the following month, the landmarked Roosevelt Lodge in Midtown. As of September 2020 (the latest numbers available) 58 p.c of Manhattan’s 129,000 resort rooms were being nevertheless shut with 2,700 expected never ever to reopen, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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