{"id":1004145101,"date":"2016-05-30T23:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004145101"},"modified":"2020-04-07T03:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:14:17","slug":"spanish-hotelier-to-establish-beachheads-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/spanish-hotelier-to-establish-beachheads-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Hotelier to Establish Beachheads in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004145102\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004145102\" data-attachment-id=\"1004145102\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/spanish-hotelier-to-establish-beachheads-in-u-s\/sanders15109_1173-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;CHRIS-SANDERS.COM&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Sanders15109_1173.jpg&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1440671127&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2015 Chris Sanders&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Sanders15109_1173.jpg&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sanders15109_1173.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sanders15109_1173.jpg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg?w=1000\" class=\"wp-image-1004145102 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"70 Park Ave., New York City\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2016\/05\/spa_ex_002-smaller.jpg?resize=768,511 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004145102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">70 Park Ave., New York City<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New York<\/strong>\u2014In barely two weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iberostar.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Iberostar Hotels &amp; Resorts<\/a> will open its first property in the United States, with the second to follow later this year, the Spanish company announced late last week.<\/p>\n<p>First to open, on June 15, will be a four-star boutique hotel featuring 205 rooms on 16 floors at 70 Park Ave. in the heart of Manhattan, near Times Square, Grand Central Station, the U.N. headquarters, Bryant Park and the Flatiron District.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel, a Kimpton until June 15, according to to an Iberostar spokesperson, is housed within\u00a0a 1928-vintage stone-and-red-brick building. The ground floor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.70parkave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Iberostar 70 Park Ave.<\/a> reportedly will feature a variety of cuisine options, such as Silverleaf Coffee &amp; Tea and Silverleaf Tavern, a baroque-inspired lounge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith its prime location and focus on service, this new hotel is the perfect way to mark our entrance into the U.S. market,\u201d Jos\u00e9 Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez, vice chairman &amp;\u00a0CEO America of Grupo Iberostar, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Iberostar is scheduled to open its second U.S. hotel, the Iberostar Berkeley in Miami\u2019s popular\u00a0South Beach district. Located in a renovated 1940s Art Deco building, it will feature 96 boutique rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Dollar figures have not be released for either property.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is based on Majorca, in Spain\u2019s Balearic Islands, focuses on four- and five-star beachfront hotels. It owns and operates more than 100 hotels in 16 countries in the Americas, Europe and Africa, including three in Brazil, three in Jamaica, ten\u00a0in Mexico and six in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iberostar is entering the U.S. hospitality market with hotels in New York City and Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004145102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21782,21808,21751,1492,1600,21742,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004145101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development","category-featured","category-hotel","category-miami","category-new-york","category-latest","category-northeast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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