Gowanus Hotel District Getting Even Bigger
One week, two more hotels planned for Gowanus. On Monday we reported that Manhattan developer Peter Moore plans to convert part of a warehouse on 3rd Street into a hotel. Now the Brooklyn Paper breaks the news that a developer purchased a lot on DeGraw between 3rd and 4th avenues, and plans to build a…
One week, two more hotels planned for Gowanus. On Monday we reported that Manhattan developer Peter Moore plans to convert part of a warehouse on 3rd Street into a hotel. Now the Brooklyn Paper breaks the news that a developer purchased a lot on DeGraw between 3rd and 4th avenues, and plans to build a 10,000-square-foot hotel on the property. The property’s buyer, Alec Shtromandel, paid $1.4 million and is based in New Jersey, according to public records. Nine hotels are planned, in progress or already open in Gowanus. Nine.
Another New Hotel Set for Gowanus [Brooklyn Paper]
Gowanus Sees Major Green With $12M Buy [Brownstoner]
Plan for 3rd Ave Hotel Brings Gowanus Total to 7 [Brownstoner]
Not one of these properties is a lot that abuts the Gowanus Canal.
For those of you who believe development is good for this neighborhood, haven’t the developers here atleast picked more appropriate places to build then the Toll Brothers have?
Come on now! How does our Councilmen get by trashing these sort of developments while doing all he can, behind the seens, to hand over the right to the Toll Brothers for building 14 story buildings along the canal waters?
The Children’s School, one of the best elementary schools in the neighborhood, is nearly in the middle of this, on Carroll between 3rd and 4th. I sincerely hope these hotels don’t attract prostitutes.
I would never send anybody I cared about to one of these awful discount chains in the middle of nowhere.
1:17 — Unless you are client 9, these hotels are not charging hot sheet rates.
12:53 — Very funny, but I am not kidding at all. Like airplanes, I think the prices are a lot lower (but not at all cheap) if you book well in advance. I was looking to book the next evening.
Oh, and don’t forget to charge your guests about $11 for that beer. For another $20, you can offer the Brooklyn pool and spa treatment (just let me get my wrench and we’ll open up the hydrant for you).
are there enough hookers to keep up with the amount of beds coming to this part of town? maybe alot of short rate specials coming with these new developments? maybe Ratner can promise new employement here!
“A simple way to get it under control is to allow hotels to be constructed in residential districts.”
Or at least commercial districts, where hotels have been banned for fear of hot sheet hotels. You’re more likely to end up with a hot sheet in a less attractive location — like Gowanus. Had hotels been allowed in commercial districts, these would have been built on 4th and 5th Avenues.
$499 for the Marriot? You’re joking!
Wow! I’m going to start charging relatives and out-of-town guests $150 a night to stay in my apartment. When they protest, I’ll assure them that they’re being given a 70% discount. Maybe I’ll add a $15 “stoop fee” if they want to be a real Brooklynite and sit out front and drink a tall, cold can of Bud in their undershirts!
People, there’s money to be made here.
I’m really surprised by the no vacancy and the glut of hotels coming here. I can’t imagine asking my parents or in-laws to stay in that area. Definitely some people our age, but it’s still a cess pool. I doubt rezoning and gentrification will remove all of the auto parts stores and frankly, I like frequent some of them.
I am skeptical that much of this will be built in the near future given the very negative financing environmen and the huge number of competitors (one reason sam chang bailed is he feels once too many come, his won’t work). Acquisition, planning and permitting make sense, but are these all really going to happen? At the same time, as the writer above said, they are desparately needed.
So much for Gowanus? Excepting the comment about construction I would have taken 10:17 as being sarcastic. Who would have predicted this? It’s got be be really good for the local economy. Worst case the hotels all tank and it becomes the best red light district in the world. Win-win.