Gansevoort South hotel opens in Miami Beach

New York’s boutique Hotel Gansevoort has opened a southern outpost in Miami Beach this month. Gansevoort South has 334 rooms and 259 condos and features a modern design by the same New York team that stylized the first 187-room Gansevoort in the Big Apple’s meatpacking district.

Unlike its predecessor, Miami Beach’s Gansevoort, in the Mid-Beach area at 2377 Collins Ave., is larger. Eighteen stories up, it has a 26,000-square-foot rooftop area — the largest in the country, says Kristen Hammer, a hotel spokeswoman — with a 110-foot pool, plunge bar and lounge, surrounded by private cabanas, with ocean and bay views.

On a more down-to-earth level (fourth floor) is a pool plaza, with an infinity-edge pool, and there’s a 50-foot-long aquarium in the lobby that will house sharks. Still to come are a David Barton gym and spa (his first ever, Hammer says) and STK and Philippe restaurants. Room rates start at $325 for doubles.

Info: Gansevoort South, (305) 604-1000

–Vani Rangachar, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

[Photo: Rooftop pool / Gansevoort South]

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