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Hotel Saint Vincent on Magazine Street in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District.
and later became a hostel of some disrepute, the kind of place where bulletproof glass shielded the front desk. New owners got hold of it and ripped it down to its original brick. In 2021, fresh off restoration, it reopened as a 75-room hotel, a blight turned beauty with its red-brick facade and wroughtiron accents. It includes the signature San Lorenzo restaurant and Paradise Lounge; in the evening, guests and locals take to the hotel’ s porch and patio to sip spirits. Next
A Crescent King room at Hotel Saint Vincent.
door, adjacent to the car park, bánh mì and pho are dished out at Elizabeth Street Cafe.( New Orleans has a strong connection to Vietnamese food culture.)
The property became the first hotel project that McGuire and Moorman worked on with Lambert attached, along with local developers Jayson Seidman and Zach Kupperman. As the story goes, Lambert passed by the property years prior to its redevelopment and thought it had the
Bird’ s-eye view of the pool at Hotel Saint Vincent.
bones to make a great hotel. Ten years after that initial thought, she received word that it was under contract.“ That is our partner now,” McGuire said.
Partnering with local knowledge is crucial to MML’ s strategy and success, McGuire said. It isn’ t structured as a fullscale development company; its focus lies on design and creative vision, dreaming up a project’ s look and feel, from rooms to F & B.“ We like to partner with best-in-class locals— that’ s our model,” McGuire said. It’ s something of great importance because MML likes to be part of long-term projects, absent short-term exit strategies.“ We’ re trying to build super-special places,” he said.
ONE, NOW TWO Its latest addition is already something special. In August 2025, MML and its partners paid $ 92 million for the 113-room Nine Orchard in New York’ s Lower East Side, where room rates can exceed $ 1,000 per night. In keeping
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