Commune Planning Two More Hotels for Manhattan

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After the Thompson Hotel founders split from Commune Hotels, they managed to walk away with most of their NYC properties, save for Gild Hall (pictured above) and Smyth Tribeca. The other properties have since been rebranded as Sixty Hotels.

But now Commune is working on opening two new hotels in Manhattan. That’s in addition to the two tommie hotels that are expected to open in 2015 and 2016.

Crain’s reports that Commune will open a new Thompson hotel in 2016 along with an entirely new hotel which will have a residential component. Say what? UPDATE: A Commune rep told us this will not be a new brand but rather they aren’t ready to divulge the brand name for the new hotel. Our apologies for getting too excited about this.

We always knew that Commune/Thompson was working on more than one new brand, but we admit, we thought those pipe dreams were over when the Thompson founders peaced out. But now we’re eager to see what this all turns out to be. Word is that even thought Commune CEO Niki Leondakis was mum on the name or the new locations, she did tell Crain’s they had deals signed. So all you real estate folk in NYC, feel free to let us know where they are.

Source: Juliana (2014). Commune Planning Two More Hotels for Manhattan , HotelChatter 1 published Apr 28, 2014. Viewed Apr 30, 2014.