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Originally Posted by MagnumMike
I'm wondering about the plans to expand the Hotel San Carlos, where the heck are they going to put the tower? If they were to put up the high-rise, it would have to be on Monroe, which would be blocked.
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There are basically two alternatives the Mellikans (sp?) were floating.
One involved construction of a tower on the roughly P-shaped western 1/3rd of the property that is not under any historic preservation ordinance, the shorter part where Seamus McCaffrey's (excellent, excellent food) is now. It would be very, very close to the massing of 44 Monroe. I believe this part was constructed in 1955.
The other alternative would be an addition on top of the hotel itself in either a modern architectural style or essentially bring the Italian Renaissance look of the current building to substantial height. This will require a "Certificate of Appropriateness" from the city HP committee, and we all know how fun that will be.
There is an excellent write-up of the hotel's history on
http://www.hotelsancarlos.com/history.html--it is remarkably well preserved, especially for Phoenix. I am not a structural engineer, but I assume plopping a tower on top would require significant changes to the interior, which altho are not generally covered under the ordinance, it would piss off any number of anti's and preservationists. Tho who knows--they simply built buildings better back in 1927. Adding height might not be so difficult.
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