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Andre Balázs is an American hotelier

Hotel manager

A hotel manager or hotelier is a person who holds a management occupation within a hotel, motel, or resort establishment. Management titles and duties vary by company. In some hotels the title hotel manager or hotelier may solely be referred to the General Manager of the hotel...

and residential developer

Real estate development

Real estate development, or Property Development, is a multifaceted business, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of improved land or parcels to others...

. He created the Standard Hotel

Standard Hotel

The Standard Hotel brand is a part of Andre Balazs Properties. It is a group of four boutique hotels in Los Angeles , Miami and New York.- History :...

s line of hotels and operates many hotels and residences in New York and other U.S. cities.

Early life

Born in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Andre Balazs studied humanities at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

as a College Scholar and was in the Quill and Dagger

Quill and Dagger

Quill and Dagger is a senior honor society at Cornell University. It is often recognized as one of the most prominent collegiate societies of its type, along with Skull and Bones of Yale University...

society, then got a masters degree in a joint journalism and business program at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. After college, he worked on a senate campaign and later founded a biotech

Biotechnology

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. Biotechnology also utilizes these products for manufacturing purpose...

company with his father. He subsequently became a developer and hotelier with the acquisition of Chateau Marmont Hotel

Chateau Marmont Hotel

The Chateau Marmont is a hotel at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. Built in 1927, and modeled loosely after the Château d'Amboise, in France's Loire Valley. It has served as the backdrop for a number of events in the lives of well-known rock stars and actors.-History:Fred...

in 1990.

Professional life

Andre Balazs Properties owns 7 hotels in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Miami and Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, including the Chateau Marmont, The Mercer, Sunset Beach, and the Standard Hotels which are located in Downtown LA, West Hollywood, Miami, and New York which recently opened in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.

Andre Balazs residential projects include 40 Mercer Residences in SoHo

SoHo

SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and also, more recently, for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from trendy boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores...

, designed by architect Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture...

; One Kenmare Square with Richard Gluckman and William Beaver House

William Beaver House

William Beaver House is a residential condominium skyscraper located in the Lower Manhattan Financial District of New York City. It has a height of 522 feet and 47 floors. It contains 319 units. It was constructed from 2006 to 2009. It is notable for its brick exterior with yellow and dark grey...

in New York's Financial District designed by Calvin Tsao.

André Balazs was a founding trustee of the New York Academy of Art

New York Academy of Art

The New York Academy of Art or the Graduate School of Figurative Art is an American private, not-for-profit art university, located at 111 Franklin Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City.-Foundation:...

, and the recipient of the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum Design Patron Award.

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Early life

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