The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue

400 5th Avenue | also 400B 5th Avenue, 1 West 36th Street, 400A 5th Avenue | Midtown | built 2010

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  1. 2006

    May

    An Italian developer buys the Fifth Avenue and 36th Street corner from a Tessler-Lehman venture

    In May 2006 Bi & Di Real Estate, an Italy-based firm for which this was its first U.S. project, bought the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 36th Street from Tessler Developments and Lehman Brothers. Tessler had acquired the lot from the Chetrit Group for about $150 million, and the site had been cleared for several months. Tessler and Lehman had already hired Gwathmey Siegel to design a tower, and the firm stayed on for the new owner.

    Source: cityrealty.com

  2. 2006

    October 12

    Community Board 5 backs moving 173,000 square feet of air rights from the Tiffany Building to the site

    On October 12, 2006, Community Board 5 voted 27 to 10, with one abstention, to back a resolution transferring 173,000 square feet of development rights from the landmarked former Tiffany Building at 401 Fifth Avenue to a tower planned across the street at 400 Fifth. In exchange the landmark was to get a preservation and maintenance plan. The proposed tower was 631 feet 10 inches tall, set back above an 11-story base.

    Source: cityrealty.com

  3. 2010

    Gwathmey Siegel's 60-story hotel and condominium tower is completed

    The tower at 400 Fifth Avenue was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, with SLCE Architects as executive architect. Completed in 2010, it covers about 570,000 square feet over 60 stories and combines a 214-room hotel with 190 condominium residences above it.

    Source: slcearch.com

  4. 2010

    November

    The hotel opens as The Setai Fifth Avenue, developed by Bizzi & Partners

    The hotel in the tower debuted in November 2010 as The Setai Fifth Avenue, run by the Capella Hotel Group and developed by Bizzi & Partners Development. Its 214 rooms fill floors four through 16, and the restaurant Ai Fiori is also in the building.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2010

    November

    Chef Michael White's Ai Fiori is set to open on the hotel's second floor, up an elliptical staircase

    Days after the Setai Fifth Avenue's official opening on November 5, 2010, its restaurant Ai Fiori, run by chef Michael White, was due to open on the second floor. White planned a French Riviera-influenced Italian menu for a 185-seat dining room, with a separate room for private groups. An elliptical staircase rises to it from a lobby decorated with backlit white onyx panels.

    Source: bizbash.com

  6. 2012

    Great Eagle buys the hotel for $229 million and later renames it the Langham

    In 2012 Hong Kong-based Great Eagle Holdings bought the hotel for $229 million and put it under its Langham Hospitality Group. The hotel took the name Langham Place, Fifth Avenue in May 2013, and in December 2017 it took its present name, The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue.

    “In 2012, it was sold to Hong Kong–based Great Eagle Holdings for $229 million.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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