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New York hotel operator to open in Shoreditch

A hotel operator that runs one of New York’s most famous hotels has won planning consent for a site on Shoreditch High Street.

Highgate Holdings, which owns the Knickerbocker on New York’s Times Square, is planning a 30 storey mixed-use scheme in the fashionable East London borough.

The 319,000 square foot project at 201-207 Shoreditch High Street will be a stone’s throw away from the area’s famous retail and leisure development, Boxpark.

Plans for a 200-room ‘luxury’ hotel as well as office space, roof terraces and a “Sky Lounge” were given the green light by Hackney Council this week.

The Sky Lounge is one of three “glass boxes” that will be positioned at different levels of the building. On the ground floor, the box will house a market, while the mid-level glass box will be called ‘the Shed’ and will be an events venue.

Gensler’s Duncan Swinhoe said“ “Thoughtful architecture is at the heart of our proposal and our design respects Shoreditch’s rich industrial legacy, while providing local entrepreneurs and creative businesses with office space and shared amenities,”

Work on the project is set to commence mid-next year and will be complete in 2018, creating 100 construction roles and more than 800 jobs for the development itself.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .