The design for a Gene Kaufman-designed hotel on the west side of the street, across from the Underground Railroad houses, has been in the public domain for several months. Until now, though, we hadn’t seen any plans for the hotel on the east side of the street just to the south of the Underground Railroad houses. This rendering of a 22-story, 107-room hotel to replace the VIM store at 237 Duffield Street recently just popped up on the Karl Fischer website. According to the site, the 108,000-square-foot building is scheduled to cost $40 million and be completed in 2008. That timeline seems a stretch given that there’s not even an application for demolition listed on the DOB website. Anyone know anything more? Is this just in suspension while the city flexes its eminent domain muscles?
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