This is getting kind of crazy. Fencing’s recently gone up around a few old warehouses on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus, and what it means is that there’s yet another hotel planned for the neighborhood. A firm called GF55 Partners is designing a Fairfield Inn between Douglass and Butler streets. According to the GF55 website, it’ll be 9 stories and have 134 rooms. DOB records confirm those plans, and the city’s issued demolition permits for the existing buildings. With the Holiday Inn Express on Union, the Comfort Inn on Butler, Hotel Le Bleu on 4th Ave., an under-construction hotel on the corner of President and 3rd, and two other hotels planned for President, Gowanus is going to be swimming in hotel rooms. (See map of Gowanus hotel-mania on the jump.) A few folks have left comments when we’ve broken news of other planned hotels saying the owners are banking on the area’s who-knows-when rezone to residential so they can convert the properties to condos. We don’t know whether that would actually be possible or likely. For now, though, it would appear that Gowanus is fixing to have one of highest—if not the highest—concentrations of hotels in Brooklyn.
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