The Gansevoort Hotel Group is to extend its brand with third party management ventures, each with a spa, in the Turks & Caicos islands, and in Toronto, Canada, and Chicago, US.

First to open will be the Gansevoort Turks & Caicos, a Wymara Resort, in March 2009. The 91-bedroom property on the main tourist island of Providenciales will be located in the western area of Grace Bay Beach and boast reef-protected ocean waters on its stretch of beachfront.

Built by the Apollo Development Company, the resort will boast a 7,000sq ft (650.3sq m) infinity-edged swimming pool as well as an Exhale Spa.

Gansevoort Toronto and Gansevoort Chicago will both open in 2011.

The new Turks & Caicos property follows the launch of the Gansevoort South Hotel, Spa and Residences in Miami, US, in March 2008. The original Hotel Gansevoort opened in New York City’s historic meatpacking district in 2004, featuring G-Spa, a spa-lounge concept.