He had a plan to strip the Commodore down to its bones, rebuild it for $100 million, and get the Hyatt corporation—which then owned no Manhattan hotels—to run everything. All he needed in ...

Trump partnered with the Hyatt Corp. to buy what was then the Commodore Hotel in the late 1970s in his first splash in Manhattan real estate. He refurbished it into a sleek glass tower and used ...

and the working name for the whole shebang is Project Commodore. Clarification, February 4, 2021: A spokesman for Hyatt asked us to clarify that the hotel has suspended operations but not ...

Trump partnered with the Hyatt Corp. to buy what was then the Commodore Hotel in the late 1970s in his first splash in Manhattan real estate. He refurbished it into a sleek glass tower and used ...

“Trump came into my office and said that he purchased the Commodore Hotel, was converting it to a Hyatt, but couldn’t get the financing and needed a tax exemption,” Ravitch said. “I had the power to ...

The Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan ... Built in 1919 by the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels group, the Commodore Hotel was originally a brick-clad building with over 2,000 rooms and a world ...

That was just before Trump, then 28, built the Grand Hyatt after first buying the decrepit Commodore Hotel at Grand Central Station from the bankrupt Penn Central Railroad for $10 million.

Now RXR and TF Cornerstone plan to tear down the Grand Hyatt, along with the shell of the old Commodore underneath, over the course of 18 months. The old, 26-story hotel will be painstakingly ...

No price has been confirmed on the looming deal. Trump partnered with the Hyatt Corp. to buy what was then the Commodore Hotel in the late 1970s in his first splash in Manhattan real estate.