Bastille to Broadway.(Manhattan Hotel Sofitel)

Building team rises to the challenge of constructing Hotel Sofitel New York in midtown Manhattan's dense urban environment

Bastille Day -- July 14 -- is France's equivalent of Independence Day in the United States, named for the storming of a Paris prison by the French citizenry that sparked the French Revolution. The opening of the Hotel Sofitel New York on Bastille Day 2000 sparked a revolution of its own for owner France-based hospitality firm Accor. The hotel establishes the company's long-planned, initial property in New York City -- the new flagship of nine existi