Twelve new hotels are scheduled to open in Brooklyn this year, and there are another 28 in the works, according to an article this morning in The Brooklyn Eagle. The Eagle got its data from an industry group called Smith Travel Research. Here’s how the 40 projects break down:
  - In construction: 15 projects, 1,588 rooms.
  - In final planning: two projects, 50 rooms.
  - In planning: 21 projects, 1,862 rooms.
  - In pre-planning: two projects, 305 rooms.

As we reported earlier this week, there’s been a hotel building boom in Gowanus of late, and there’s going to be four hotels on one block of Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn (including the Sheraton and Aloft shown above) when all’s said and done. I can’t think of a better symbol of Brooklyn’s progress than new hotels, which started back in 1998 with the opening of Brooklyn’s first new hotel in nearly 70 years — the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, which has expanded in the past few years and is doing great business,” said Borough Prez Marty Markowitz. The big question is: If you build them, will they come?
40 Hotel Projects in Pipeline for Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]