Lower Manhattan, Midtown West to get surge of hotels

Lower Manhattan
and Midtown West are each expected to gain at least 20 hotels over the
next two years, according to a Manhattan hotel report. The report said that citywide, a total of 10,298 new hotel rooms could flood Manhattan through
2011, including the Mark and the Double Tree Chelsea, which are
expected to open in the middle of this year; the Nolitan, which is
scheduled to open in 2010; and Trump Soho, expected to open this
September. Of the proposed 50 new hotels citywide, 18 are mid-scale, 22 are boutiques and just three are pitched as luxury hotels. TRD