SomeraRoad and Marriott are transforming the former Hotel Bossert, a 282-room hotel from 1909 in Brooklyn Heights, into 62 Ritz-Carlton branded residences. Danny Meyer restaurant on the ground floor, construction starts late 2026, delivery in 2029.
Accor has signed Ink 48, a former 1930s theatrical printing house turned hotel in Hell's Kitchen. Its 222 rooms and Hudson rooftop will become the flagship for the MGallery Collection in the United States, but not before 2028.
Opening on September 14, 2026, the Casetta group's Hotel Lucile occupies a 1931 Presbyterian church in Silver Lake, featuring 25 rooms designed by Electric Bowery, the Sous Sous restaurant beneath the nave, and neighborhood art programming.
While the US Open is played at Flushing Meadows, the Lotte New York Palace is hosting its very own tennis season in the courtyard of the Villard Houses: an invitational match featuring Serena Williams and Taylor Fritz, daily giant-screen screenings, and a 100,000-dollar package. Yet the hotel is not a partner of the tournament, and its communication never utters its name.
Canopy Deer Valley opened in September 2026 in Deer Valley East Village, the new extension of the Park City resort in Utah. Developed by Extell and designed by DLR Group and BraytonHughes, the 180-room hotel is the first Canopy by Hilton in a ski resort and the first in the state, featuring four restaurants led by chef Scott Rackliff, 40 minutes from Salt Lake City airport.
Midjourney, the laboratory known for its image generator, will open its first spa in late 2027 at 300 Grant Avenue, one block from Union Square in San Francisco. Spanning approximately 2,300 sq m across four levels designed by Iceland's Basalt Architects, creators of the Blue Lagoon, a thermal circuit of hot baths, saunas, and cold plunges leads into around ten ultrasound scanners that map the body in 60 seconds, without radiation or magnets. Open 24/7, self-funded, and conceived as a place to spend the evening, the scan is merely a secondary effect of the visit.
American Horror Story season 13 brings back the Hotel Cortez on September 24. The hotel never existed: its façade is the Oviatt Building, a 1928 Art Deco jewel by Lalique, and the Cecil which inspired its atmosphere was never used for filming.
The Gwynne Building, a 1913 Beaux-Arts block by Ernest Flagg and the former headquarters of Procter & Gamble, reopened on 28 July 2026 as Cincinnati’s Fidelity Hotel: 165 rooms including 17 suites, two dining rooms and an $81 million conversion.
Jim Geoghan, co-creator of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, passed away on September 6, 2026 at the age of 79. The series was set in a fictional hotel, the Tipton, whose exterior shots featured a very real establishment: the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, opened in 1912 on Copley Square.
Hilton has signed the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Florida, which will reopen under the Signia by Hilton brand on 1 January 2027 following the most extensive renovation in its forty-year history. Featuring 474 rooms including 50 villas, a spa, pools, competition tennis courts and access to three miles of beach, it is the first Signia on the Gulf Coast and the third in Florida.
In New Harmony, near Tyler in East Texas, designer Trey Dillon has built a habitable, 7.60-metre-tall cereal box set within a hectare of pine trees. It features four berths, a sauna concealed inside a milk carton, a 2.40-metre bowl hammock, a spilled milk puddle terrace, and an all-you-can-eat cereal bar. A winner of the Airbnb OMG! Fund in 2023, it opened in April 2026 and holds a 5-out-of-5 rating from its first guests. Here is a look inside and what this address reveals about the unusual accommodation market.
Opened in January 1928 by Thomas Rowe on the sands of St. Pete Beach, The Don CeSar, nicknamed the Pink Palace, will celebrate its centenary in 2028. A military hospital during the war, saved from demolition in 1973, renovated in 2021, and closed for five months following hurricanes Helene and Milton, the Gulf of Mexico's pink palace reopened in March 2025. History, rooms, spa, beach: everything you need to know.
