Expansion Plans
It is owned by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. In November 2007, the company announced acquisition and plans to raze the Donnell Library branch directly north of the 21 Club on 53rd Street (Manhattan) and build a $220 million 11-story, 150-room hotel that would be connected to the 21 Club and would be the flagship for a new "21" brand of hotels. These plans were put on hold and shelved in March 2009; Orient-Express saying it "wanted to revisit the $59 million agreement because of the global financial crisis and a shortage of credit for construction and real estate development."
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