☞ REVIVE: A Boutique Hotel for Manhattanville?

The area over by the Mink Building has big plans for it already but could a boutique hotel be arriving soon on West 126th Street?  We had a tip come in over the weekend that a deal had closed for a building connected to the main Mink Building warehouse on Amsterdam.  Seeing that we have been by the block many times, it was odd to us that any hotel could arrive at the relatively low rise structures that were attached next door.

After walking by the area again, we noticed a couple of permits that might verify that a large establishment could be arriving soon.  DOB paperwork approved in the past few months for 461 West 126th Street show that two of the smaller (possibly former stables) are currently being combined and the height will almost double to 9 stories.  Currently about 48,500 square feet exist between the buildings and the pending vertical addition will set the final total at 88,400 square feet.

One of the very notable downtown boutique hotels had been connected to the project but we could not find any details online to confirm this information.  With that said, we alway thought that the industrial sections of Manhattanville looked like the Meat Packing District and could eventually be revitalized as a destination spot if the right businesses arrived.

As previously reported, the empty parking lots across the street were recently sold to developers with talks of a hotel rising also: LINK

Then there is that beer manufacturing center planned just across the street from this intersection: LINK

This of course is all a couple of blocks away from Columbia's new $6.3 billion campus currently rising over on Broadway and 125th: LINK