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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: March 15, 2016
Gene Kaufman Architect designs Choice Hotel
337 West 36th Street - Manhattan, NYNew York, NY A 25,000 s/f Choice Hotel designed Gene Kaufman Architect (GKA) broke ground at 337 West 36th St. The property is being developed by the McSam Hotel Group.
The 23-story, 89-room hotel is rising on a site that is only 25 ft. wide. GKA has developed an expertise in designing viable hotel properties for slender properties and has four such projects, all DOB-approved, under construction.
The hotel has a stone base, a brick façade and is topped by a penthouse with an angled mirror-and-glass front.
GKA is known for high-caliber, high-impact designs that are both innovative and highly efficient. For nearly 30 years, founding principal Gene Kaufman and his team have helped New York City’s most active developers realize substantial bottom-line results through thoughtful design, bringing to bear a wide-ranging expertise in zoning, land-use, variances, urban planning, and historic restoration.
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