Midtown Technologies | Projects

Hotel owners face difficult challenges in determining the appropriate level of technology services for their guests. Decisions can range from the stylish and artistic, such as entertainment programming and lighting, to the internal and utilitarian, such as selecting a ubiquitous yet non-invasive security system. All these complex systems generally ride a common infrastructure, which must be carefully designed and built: mistakes can lead to disastrously expensive problems.

Midtown Technologies has extensive expertise in the special needs of luxury hotels. We begin by helping our clients think through the business plans of their properties relative to their myriad and inter-connecting choices of technologies: how can they offer “the best” at reasonable construction costs? Once decisions are made, we issue requirements; negotiate with carriers, service providers and manufacturers on prices and income streams; prepare complete design and construction documents and oversee the build. Our careful methodology is a proven commodity to offer “the best” at the most cost-effective budgets.

Current projects include The Plaza Hotel and Residences and The Thompson Hotel Group.

Condominium developers are challenged with creating a beautiful and comfortable home, complete with the technological features that are required by both professionals and families. Considerations for this constituency can be far different from those faced by hotel owners. Thought must be given to common space vs. private space that can be customized to the owner’s specifications, and to the implications of the technology decisions on business issues related to the future condominium association.

Midtown Technologies works with developers of large, luxury condominium campuses, urban condominium towers, and owners of dozens of individual condo and co-op properties in need of new construction or retrofitting.

Current projects include The Ritz Carlton Residences at Inner Harbor Baltimore and North Hills, New York; Midtown Miami, and One River Terrace at Battery Park City, where Midtown Technologies is pioneering a green technology plan for residential development that includes PDA activated utility systems, wireless infrastructure, recycled materials and other innovations.

Breaching “the digital divide” so that low income housing developments can offer affordable high speed Internet and other technologies to their residents is a major topic among policy planners.

At Midtown Technologies, we are breaching the digital divide by devising helping to unite carriers, service providers, housing owners and residents in networks that provide reasonable return for providers, income for developers, and affordable service for residents.

Current projects reach from South Carolina to Rhode Island. Mount Hope Housing is only one of the many developments in the New York City area that are bridging the digital divide based on the infrastructure and networks developed by Midtown Technologies.

The technology in commercial properties is generally far simpler to design and build than residential properties, with one major exception – carrier neutral in-building wireless systems, which are equally challenging in all structures.

Midtown Technologies helps properties ensure that tenants’ cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices will operate, in addition to designing and building the basic wired infrastructure.

In addition, we assist commercial clients who face difficult challenges, for example, Midtown is the technology master planner for the transition of the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard to a modern campus for light industry.

Current projects also include the neutral host wireless infrastructure at E&Y World Headquarters at 5 Times Square (ww.ey.com) and the Comcast Center, which is now the tallest building in Philadelphia.

Telecommunications companies that may have difficulty bringing services to real estate properties call on Midtown Technologies for our unique expertise at the intersection of technology and real estate.

For example, Midtown Technologies providing the modeling and conducted the pilot program for Verizon's landmark Fiber to the Home (FTTP) program, the company's initiative to bring fiber-based broadband services for voice, video and data to homes across American. The Midtown Technologies property survey, engineering design and real estate consulting teams were instrumental in getting this revolutionary program off the drawing boards and into retrofitted garden apartments, traditionally the most difficult segment of the real estate industry to penetrate with new technology.

Technology is the gateway to a luxury lifestyle for the affluent and discerning vacation home owner and traveler, offering an experience that brings convenience to a new level. Designing, selecting, sourcing, implementing and managing a technology amenities program, what we refer to as a property’s “Technomenities” makes a big difference in our “connected” world. It is becoming an art form to seamlessly blend quality of experience with the aesthetics of a property and anticipated needs of resident and guests.

At Midtown Technologies, we help resort owners and planners to implement innovative technology offerings that reinforce their brand and underscore the quality, luxury and lifestyle experience of their development. Our most recent project is North Beach Plantation in Myrtle Beach, SC, a 60 acre beachfront property scheduled to open in 2008.