Friday, December 2, 2011

Oh, on second thought, André Balazs only paid $67.5 million for the Cooper Square Hotel

And not the $91 million that was previously reported. This news comes via Roland Li at the International Business Times. Read it here.

Meanwhile, Goggla notes the end of the mural (Balazsification) on the side of the former Cooper Square Hotel... now called The Dradnats Standard East Village


The Shepard Fairey mural went up in April 2010.

Meanwhile, some fallout...

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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 7:41 AM

    Sad. That mural was the best thing about the hotel.
    Instead, why don't they clean up the graffiti vandalism on the other side?

    - East Villager

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