The great landmark is still undergoing an eight years-and-counting restoration and redesign. The building’s current condition is also a nuisance to nearby businesses.
— is the latest insult to New York City by a Chinese company interested mainly in selling super-luxury condo apartments to globetrotting investors who might never turn on the lights.
Sure, the Waldorf will reopen some day. But Hilton, which manages the property, let word dribble out last week that the re-launch initially scheduled for late this year is pushed back again to sometime in spring 2025 — and that’s merely the “expected” time frame.The re-launch of the Waldorf Astoria, initially scheduled for late this year, is pushed back again to sometime in spring 2025.
But the collapse of Anbang, followed by the exit of the Waldorf’s US project manager in early 2023, contributed to repeated slowdowns on top of pandemic-related ones.The iconic hotel will have 375 hotel rooms and suites compared with the original 1,400, although the new ones will be twice as large, as well as 375 condo residences priced from $1.8 million to $20 million. Above, the hotel in 2007.
The still-dark Waldorf is an embarrassment to Hilton, which launched a “Waldorf Astoria Collection” of luxury inns and resorts around the world in 2006. Earlier this year, Hilton launched a publicity campaign to convince the world that a new Waldorf Astoria was truly coming.
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