More Rooms for the Inn-Crowd: Ace, Standard Hotels Get Ready for Check-In

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

A Seattle-based rock-n-roll hostel with a hipster vibe and a Standard-issue André Balazs venture will be guest-ready in the coming year.

The east coast’s first Ace Hotel is scheduled to open in February of 2009. Seattle’s branded hipster hostel has taken over the landmarked 1904 Breslin Hotel on 29th Street and Broadway. Modeled after the Ace in Seattle, the tongue-in-cheek low-rent atmosphere will be home to Rudy’s Barber Shop (like the one in the downtown L.A. Standard) and an outlet of the Portland coffee shop Stumptown. In addition, a restaurant called the Wild Boar, courtesy of Ken Friedman, co-owner of the well-known Spotted Pig may open at the hotel and join the party. The quirky hotel will allegedly offer in-room SMEG fridges stocked with six-packs, turntables and acoustic guitars. The 29th street neighborhood isn't much of a destination now, but may well become one once the Ace is on the table.

If your guests will be arriving sooner, you may want to note that Hotel developer André Balazs, owner of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles and the funky, iconic Standard Hotels in that city and Miami Beach is nearly ready to get the party started at his 337-room Standard at that building straddling the also-opening-soon High Line park at 848 Washington at 13th Street.

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