The condos will range from 2,000 to 3,500 square feet and the villas will be about 4,100 square feet; the layout of the condo-hotel units, which will be sold furnished, has not yet been determined.
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Mr. McLaughlin found that condos typically had the same inconvenient layout: two boxy rooms and no hallway.
Corcoran Sunshine is still working with the buyer to design a custom layout at the Apthorp, the condo conversion at 2211 Broadway on the Upper West Side, Ms. Mack said.
At 99 Gold Street, also a newly built condo allowing rentals, Ms. Maginn found the layouts odd and the balconies strangely configured.
They liked the interiors at Independence Harbor in Edgewater, a 14-building condo complex completed in 2002, that included some duplex layouts.
The condos come in two basic styles, said Mr. Gershwin: either a 2,383-square-foot 2,383-square-foot 2,383-square-footare-foot playout
But condo-motel owners argue that their motels' smaller size and simple layout make for a more nostalgic, more social experience that lets them preserve a vanishing breed of holiday, while owning a second home at a reasonable price.
In response to buyer requests at Manhattan House, a condo conversion on East 66th Street, the developer recently created five new layouts for three to five bedrooms, said Anne Young, the building's senior sales manager.
A condo on 43rd Street in Sunset Park, priced in the low $300,000s, was beautiful, but the layout was not quite right.
