BPC’s Embassy suites slated for retail, restaurant upgrade

After weeks of retail and restaurant shuttering in Battery Park City’s
Embassy Suites Hotel at 102 North End Avenue, owner Goldman Sachs has
announced its plan to “upgrade” the hotel and revitalize its presence
in the neighborhood by bringing in a luxury hotel operator, according
to the Broadsheet Daily. The hotel, which will shutter temporarily and
reopen in the fourth quarter of 2011 as a Conrad New York, is also
looking to attract some higher-end retail tenants to match its new
brand name. Uber-restaurateur Danny Meyer, famous for his Union Square
Cafe and Shake Shack chain, is slated to open a fine dining
establishment in the hotel, with the other two restaurant spaces
as-of-yet unclaimed. While no specific retailers were named in the
hotel’s plans, Goldman revealed that they were talking to a florist, a
wine shop and a dessert shop. [Broadsheet Daily]