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Lokalist, Istanbul, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel
Istanbul, Turkey · Tribute Portfolio · Accessible Luxury
Philippe Starck and John Hitchcox opened their first hotel on Mete Caddesi, and it lasted about two months. In early 2014 the Gençoğlu family launched Yoo2 above Gezi Park, 59 rooms and a reported 36 million dollars. By April, Lucis Global had bought the house and hung an Avantgarde sign on it. In February 2024 the Gençoğlus were back. The same eight-floor building, renovated the year before, reopened as Lokalist, a Tribute Portfolio hotel, with 61 rooms over the park and the Bosphorus from the higher floors.
- 61 rooms
- Opened 2024
- Neighborhood: Taksim
- Rooms from 215 sq ft (20 m²)
About Lokalist, Istanbul, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel
- İsmet Ömer Öztanık, buying the hotel in April 2014 for Lucis Global, said they took it turnkey and changed nothing architectural. The Yoo shell is what every later name had to work with.
- Mete Caddesi No. 28, Gümüşsuyu. The metro and the funicular are about two minutes away, Taksim Square about five. Gezi Park is what the lower rooms face.
- The pre-opening consultant counts 61 rooms and names Gençoğlu Otelcilik as the investor this time. The Avantgarde era, under the Öztanıks, had listed 59.
History
The building dates to about 2012. In early 2014 the Gençoğlu family, with Philippe Starck and John Hitchcox's Yoo studio, opened it as Yoo2, described in Hürriyet as Yoo's first hotel anywhere, a reported 36 million dollar project. It did not stay. By April 2014 Lucis Global, the Öztanık family (İsmet Ömer Öztanık and his brother Cenk), had bought it and renamed it Avantgarde Hotel Taksim Square. The new owners said they changed nothing architectural. Contemporary coverage counted 59 rooms: park, Bosphorus, and garden categories.
A decade later the Gençoğlus were the investors again. Access, the hospitality consultant on the pre-opening, dates the Tribute Portfolio debut to February 2024 and counts 61 rooms. Cvent dates a renovation to 2023 and the building to 2012. The trading name is now Lokalist, Istanbul, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel.
The setting
Mete Caddesi runs through Gümüşsuyu, just above Gezi Park and Taksim Square. The metro and the funicular down to Kabataş are a couple of minutes. İstiklal and the old Pera hotels are the walk south. From the upper floors the Bosphorus shows past the park. It is a small hotel on a loud corner, which is the bargain Starck's short-lived Yoo2 was making in 2014 and Lokalist is making again.
Restaurants and bars
- 7 Paintings - Istanbul — Restaurant
Amenities
- Airport shuttle
- Non-smoking rooms
- Fitness center
- Room service
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Internet
- Restaurant
- 24-hour front desk
- Tea/Coffee maker
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