[NYguy]

Some throwback news for the site, where Extell Development was at one time planning the tallest hotel in the country at 980 ft...



https://nypost.com/2007/01/17/majors-bid-for-javits/

MAJORS BID FOR JAVITS

By Lois Weiss
January 17, 2007

THREE qualified bids to develop a convention hotel opposite the Javits Center were received on Friday by the Empire State Development Corp.

The hopefuls and hotel partners are The Moinian Group with Marriott International, Extell Development with Hyatt, and Austin, Texas-based Faulkner with Hilton.

Joseph Moinian, who is also constructing a Downtown W Hotel with 217 rooms, 64 suites and 158 residences, is planning a much larger hotel for the convention headquarters facility.

Sources said The Marriott would be a 70-story, 1,400-room hotel designed by architecture firm Gensler with two ballrooms that have a total capacity of 5,000 for dinner. It would be the largest in the city.

Marriott Chairman and CEO Bill Marriott has also been very involved in its design.

Coincidentally, Moinian also owns the entire block directly to the site’s south where he can build up to a 2 million-foot mixed-use project.

Neither he nor Extell’s Gary Barnett returned calls by press time. Faulkner reps declined to discuss their proposal.

https://observer.com/2008/06/so-long-javits-hotel/

So Long, Javits Hotel





By Eliot Brown
06/24/08

Plans for a soaring new hotel across from an expanded Javits Center have now gone the way of, well, an expanded Javits Center.

With expansion plans scaled back months ago, the Paterson administration earlier in June refunded the deposits of the three bidders vying to build the Javits Hotel, a tower planned to hold at least 1,200 rooms along 11th Avenue at 35th Street. Plans for the site and hotel are now unclear, and the state would need to undergo the lengthy process of a new environmental review, then a new request for proposals, before awarding the job to any developer.

...The hotel bidders were Extell Development Corporation, the Moinian Group, and FaulknerUSA. At least one developer—Gary Barnett of Extell—has previously expressed a strong desire to go ahead with the project despite the scaled-back plans for the convention center.