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Andre Balazs

Andre Balázs is a New York City hotelier and residential developer.

[edit] Early life

A graduate of Cornell University as College Scholar and Columbia Graduate School. Balazs studied humanities at Cornell University, then got a masters degree in a joint journalism and business program at Columbia University. After college, he worked on a senate campaign and later founded a biotech company with his father. He subsequently became a developer and hotelier with the acquisition of famed Chateau Marmont in 1990.

[edit] Professional life

Andre Balazs Properties ([1]), owns 8 hotels in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, including the Chateau Marmont, The Mercer, The Standard Hollywood, The Standard Hotel (The Standard has hotels in Downtown LA, West Hollywood, Miami, and New York which recently opened in Manhattan's Meatpacking District.), Sunset Beach and The Raleigh Hotel. His residential projects include 40 Mercer Residences in Soho, designed by architect Jean Nouvel; One Kenmare Square with Richard Gluckman and William Beaver House in New York's Financial District designed by Calvin Tsao.

André Balazs was a founding trustee of the New York Academy of Art, is currently a member of the board of directors of the New York Public Theater and Wolfsonian-FIU, and the recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Design Patron Award.