Joie de Vivre

Ugly Joie de Vivre Hotel at 50 Bowery Ascends to 20 Stories
Posted July 28, 2015 at 5:19 am
The Grand Old Bank on the Bowery (i.e. the HSBC) is less so, trumped by Peter Poon’s ego. That new Joie de Vivre hotel rising at 50 Bowery is growing like a weed, having already ascended to a level of twenty stories (basically doubled its height in a month). The concrete superstructure is now visible […]
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Rising Joie de Vivre Hotel at 50 Bowery Reaches 10 Stories
Posted June 10, 2015 at 9:33 am
The gaudy Peter Poon hotel at 50 Bowery – a development nearly a decade in the making – is finally undertaking its inevitable ascent. No longer in the excavation and foundation phase, its days as dirt pit are now deep in the past. Indeed, two months after the first evidence of concrete exoskeleton began to […]
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Joie de Vivre is the 22-Story Hotel Currently Rising at 50 Bowery
Last modified January 23, 2015 at 8:28 am
Progress is slow at Peter Poon’s monstrous new Lower East Side hotel development. Indeed, 50 Bowery remains a block-long crater, making slow strides to its eventual calling as a 22-story tower. Excavation and foundation work is clearly the order of business these days. Yet until now, a proper identity was never ascertained; only a working […]