Conrad New York Downtown (formerly the Embassy Suites)

102 North End Avenue | also 255 Vesey Street, 259 Vesey Street, 215 Murray Street | Battery Park City | built 1988

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1999

    Sol LeWitt paints a 13-story wall drawing in the hotel atrium

    Sol LeWitt painted a blue and purple wall drawing in the atrium of the hotel complex in 1999. It rises 13 stories above the lobby. Years later, the architect Monica Ponce de Leon designed suspended tubular shapes outlined by strings for the lobby to echo the gestural marks of the mural, which she treated as the starting point for her design.

    Source: interiordesign.net

  2. 2000

    June

    Forest City Ratner opens the 463-suite Embassy Suites beside a multiplex

    The Embassy Suites Hotel New York City opened in June 2000 as part of a Forest City Ratner Companies complex that also held a movie multiplex. It offered 463 two-room suites of 450 to 800 square feet, about 15,000 square feet of event space and a 20,000-square-foot health club. The hotel closed after the September 11 attacks.

    Source: hospitalitynet.org

  3. 2002

    May 1

    The Embassy Suites reopens after serving as a rest area for Ground Zero workers

    After September 11, hotel and restaurant staff helped rescue and recovery workers, and the hotel served as a triage and rest area. It reopened on May 1, 2002, with the Unity restaurant and the United Artists Battery Park Stadium 16 cinema reopening alongside it. Governor George Pataki joined a celebration on May 16 with free screenings of Star Wars: Episode II. About 90 percent of the original hotel staff returned to their jobs.

    Source: hospitalitynet.org

  4. 2011

    February

    Goldman Sachs unveils plans to turn the Embassy Suites into a Conrad hotel

    Goldman Sachs announced in early 2011 that it would convert the 14-story, 463-room Embassy Suites into a luxury hotel under Hilton's Conrad brand, to reopen by the end of the year. Plans called for removing much of the opaque brick facade and installing glass and steel across the lower floors. A green roof would let chefs grow herbs and vegetables, with a 1,350-square-foot roof deck, and Goldman sought LEED Gold. The movie theater would stay open during construction.

    Source: dnainfo.com

  5. 2011

    Danny Meyer and Harry Poulakakos are lined up for the hotel's ground floor

    Goldman Sachs's retail plan for the hotel block put Danny Meyer in charge of three places: a Shake Shack, a second Blue Smoke and a signature restaurant. Harry Poulakakos planned a pizzeria in the former Lily's Noodle Shop space that would stay open until 4 a.m. for overnight traders. Goldman had closed the Embassy Suites in January 2011, and with DSW and New York Sports Club out of their leases, 45,000 square feet were to become a 600-person ballroom and conference center. The Regal cinema's lower ticket counter was to go, with tickets sold in the upper lobby.

    Source: tribecatrib.com

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