Dive Brief:
- Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants plans to open a third hotel in New York City, Kimpton Rockefeller Center, in 2025, parent company IHG Hotels & Resorts announced Thursday.
- Located on 48th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the 529-key, 33-story hotel is being developed in partnership with New York real estate developer Extell Development Company.
- IHG is expanding the Kimpton brand as part of its broader luxury and lifestyle push. Kimpton, which recently opened a hotel in Denver, plans to open 57 additional properties within the next three to five years.
Dive Insight:
IHG calls the Kimpton Rockefeller Center, which will feature views of the city skyline, “design-forward,” with architecture and design led by New York-based SLCE Architects and interior design studio INC Architecture & Design.
Elysa Goldman, senior vice president of development at Extell, said the hotel will feature a “robust” food and beverage program. The hotel will include two full-service restaurants as well as a lobby lounge and rooftop bar. It will also include a fitness center and two spaces dedicated to hosting “unique meetings” and social gatherings, according to IHG.
The property is within walking distance of some of the city’s most popular attractions, including Central Park, Radio City Music Hall and the Theater District.
Last year, Kimpton opened another midtown Manhattan property, Kimpton Hotel Theta, near Times Square at Eighth Avenue and West 48th Street. The brand opened its first hotel in the city, Kimpton Hotel Eventi, in 2010 in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
More recently, Kimpton opened its second Denver hotel, the Kimpton Claret. And earlier this summer, the brand announced plans to restore and reopen Hawaii’s historic Coco Palms resort.
IHG’s luxury and lifestyle segment has been on a “fairly rapid growth path over the last few years,” Leanne Harwood, the company’s senior vice president for its luxury and lifestyle sector in the Americas region, told Hotel Dive earlier this month.
“We’ve really identified the fact that this is a growing segment,” Harwood said. “We’re continuing to see growth in top-tier segments. And so for us, it’s been very much about making sure that we’ve got brands that sit across a wide platform within that sector.”
