This vile piece of junk was sold a few years ago. It appears that Pret’s parent company bought it.
I think that the site is too small to develop as a boutique hotel. At a minimum, it needs a new facade.
If you combined it with the two buildings east of it you would have a good sized lot.
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I agree
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It looks big enough for a sliver tower.
And, yeah, if you combined it, you’d get a good-sized tower site.
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With the full 15 FAR that this site is zoned for you’d only get 43,500 zsqft, adding the small 2 lots would still only generate a tower with about 89,000 zsqft, which after totaling gsf, it would be about the same size as other chain hotel towers that are spread all over the city, which aren’t that big or tall. Even adding transit improvement FAR it still wouldn’t be big.
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You really know your stuff and are an amazing contributor, TKDV. Despite the limitations that you note, I’d gladly take a 25 floor glass box over that filthy dreck.
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Thanks, I try to be helpful whenever I can be/provide information/logistics when possible. 
Don’t wish too hard though, you might get a Gene Kaufman instead. lol
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Kaufman can come through sometimes. His building on 14th and 8th looks really good.
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I’ll agree with that, “most” of his work outside of his hotel/hospitality stuff is fairly normal and some good (like the aforementioned building), but I have no idea what’s going on with all the hotels, it’s like a completely different person doing them.
And since it’s likely that a hotel could go up here more than any other function, I’d like to think that he isn’t the designer for it should one pop up here. A nice small residential high-rise could also go up here.
I’d be elated with something like 1050 6th.
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