More than a year after the news that Cambria Suites had entered an agreement with a franchiser to build the brand’s first Brooklyn location, the Department of Buildings signed off on the New Building application for a 12-story, 300-room hotel at 75 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The developer for the project paid $22,750,000 for the 17,000-square-foot lot a year ago and plans to erect a 175,000-square-foot hotel on the site. According to a Brooklyn Eagle article last year, the new hotel will have a swimming pool, fitness center, coffee bar and conference rooms on site; as of this morning, though, the parking lot business that’s taken up the site for many years was still in full swing. Cambria Suites will have to compete with the 247-unit hotel down the road at 300 Schermerhorn Street. GMAP P*Shark DOB