He added that the effect of Hurricane Harvey on the hotel had been “relatively minor.”Ĭold or inclement weather can, of course, pose a challenge to hotel rooftop operators. “We’re doing double what we and Marriott thought we would do,” he said. He predicted that food and beverage revenue this year from the podium’s rooftop - which also features a 75-foot lap pool and a bar and grill and is open only to hotel guests - would exceed projections.
In fact, the lazy river has attracted both families and meeting and convention groups to the hotel, which is connected to the city’s convention center, said Luke Charlton, chief operating officer of the hotel’s co-owner, the RIDA Development Corporation. A $10 million amenity deck, including a “lazy river” water feature in the shape of Texas, was built on the podium’s rooftop specifically to attract local residents. The $370 million Marriott Marquis Houston, which opened in December, is made up of a tower with 1,000 guest rooms and a podium that contains the hotel’s ballroom, among other facilities. And in San Francisco, there is the Top of the Mark at the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins.Ĭertain hotel rooftops have been developed for specific purposes. Earlier examples in New York include the Salon de Ning rooftop bar and terrace at the Peninsula on Fifth Avenue and the Plunge Rooftop Bar and Lounge at the Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC hotel. Hotel rooftop development is not a new phenomenon. The TAO Group, the operator of several popular restaurants and nightclubs in New York and Las Vegas, is Lightstone’s partner on food, beverage and entertainment. Its owner, the Lightstone Group, worked with the Rockwell Group to develop the rooftop’s amenities, including views of the Empire State Building, an all-season bar, topiaries of bears in naughty poses, a carousel for up to 16 guests and a miniature golf course.
Originally a hotel for immigrant construction workers, the building was converted to commercial office space. Stephen Brandman, co-owner and chief executive of Journal Hotels, which operates the Mondrian Park Avenue, has teamed up with Richie Akiva of the night life company Butter Group to operate Fifteen Stories.Įven more elaborate is the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar and Lounge, a 10,000-square-foot “urban amusement park” atop Marriott International’s Moxy Times Square, which occupies a 1906 building at Seventh Avenue and 36th Street. The hotel’s former rooftop is now a lounge called Fifteen Stories, with a 3,000-square-foot space enclosed by a glass structure and a 2,000-square-foot wraparound terrace overlooking both Park Avenue South and 30th Street. The 189-room Mondrian Park Avenue, at 30th Street and Park Avenue South, occupies what was once a 15-story office building, to which five stories have been added. Two new Manhattan hotels feature one of the hottest and most highly coveted amenities in the hospitality industry: rooftop venues that offer food, drink, entertainment and spectacular views.
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