CityGuy

The last remaining relic of Lower Manhattan's "first World Trade Center" is being absorbed into the design of a big new apartment building.

There will also be 2 hotels built on the other side of 211 Pearl. On Pearl Street, where the demolition of a row of historic townhouses briefly made worldwide headlines, the Lam Group was believed to be planning a massive 660-room Sheraton. That is partly true. The 53-story 217 Pearl Street will be made up of two hotels, a Sheraton and an Aloft. Aloft is the new hip & fancy W Hotels offshoot, with locations already planned for Downtown Brooklyn and Long Island City. The new Pearl Street megahotel, just down the block from this other crazy thing, will include a public plaza, covered public pedestrian circulation space, ballrooms, conference facilities, and rooftop bar.

nycking

any idea what these apartments are going for? Generally the financial district has somewhere fair prices for Manhattan standards