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This Green Boss Keeps a Hotel’s Living Décor, Well, Alive

Cameron Sperance
February 4th, 2022 at 2:00 AM EST
Arlo Hotel Midtown

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While some of us barely know how to keep a potted plant alive, Valerio Morano Sagliocco and his team make sure many hotels, residential developments, and other businesses never have to worry about leaves losing their green — or whatever color they’re supposed to be — luster.

Landscaping requires more tender loving care than a hotel’s non-living decor. That’s where the landscape designers and watering technicians at New York-based Morano Group come in.

The third generation, family-owned and operated company’s attention and care to ornate landscape work has been featured in the pages of Architecture Digest. But Morano Group has since expanded into the commercial sector, including several hospitality projects like the Peninsula Hotel in New York City, the St. Regis Residences in Rye, N.Y., and several Arlo Hotels and Sonder properties in New York City. 

Morano Group CEO Valerio Morano Sagliocco 15 years ago took over the company his grandfather started. He is now leading the company through an era of significant expansion. 

“I moved down to Manhattan about 10 years ago, and I wanted to sink my teeth into a lot of the pro

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