Gowanus Getting Its Very Own Boutique Hotel

Doesn't a boutique hotel require a boutique location? I agree with 'stoner; Williamsburg seems the logical place, or maybe something close by BAM, based on speculation that the so-called cultural district will actually get built.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 9:54 AM

This hotel will do well. There are no other hotels nearby to support guests of the Park Slope yuppies. And yes, it is next to Staples, but it is also one block from 5th Ave.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 10:27 AM

It's hideous looking!

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 11:02 AM

in my earlier comments about location, i did not mean to imply that a hotel could not do well at this location, only that a boutique hotel probably didn't understand the market. btw, worked in three hotels, including as assistant manager

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 11:04 AM

sweet. Who knew that one day you'd be able to book a room inside of a desktop computer!

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 12:15 PM

This hotel is on the Gowanus side of 4th. It's structure is already built. It is across the street from the new 12 story Boymelgreen (sp?) building.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 12:20 PM

Rooms at the new Holdiay Inn Express are actually pretty nice. I recently put my parents up there. I like it much better than the Brooklyn Marriott.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 3:54 PM

Is the Brooklyn Casket Company still on that stretch of Union by the Best Western/Holiday Inn?

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 5:25 PM

Yeah, that Holiday Inn is nice inside but I had to escort my mother-in-law two nights in a row past the car on the sidewalk with the flashing inner-bling lights going off, complete with the sketchy dad with babystroller at 11:30pm enjoying a 40. Not the most comforting experience.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 6, 2006 8:48 PM

This is so interesting, another hotel coming in, because I remember the headlines in one NY paper about the Holiday Inn Express opening in Gowanus said something about it being a "gamble" to open a hotel there. Obviously the Holiday Inn is doing well after all, b/c these folks now want in on the action.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 7, 2006 2:42 AM

Its all about price and if competitive they'l have the rooms booked no problem. Both this so-called boutique hotel and the H-Inn Expess on Union are much better situated than the one going up on Butler between 3rd and Nevins by far.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 7, 2006 9:54 AM

It's not just Park Slope "yuppies" as someone called them needing a place for the MIL, though that's necessary too. Everyone I know outside NYC in the US or Europe would totally be very willing to stay in Brooklyn in a fun neighborhood with places nearby to eat, if the hotel is reasonable. And these people aren't poor; they just aren't thrilled about spending $250 or more a night for a tiny hotel room with no exterior windows in noisy overcrowded Midtown. Manhattan hotels are over the top expensive.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 7, 2006 9:27 PM

Brooklyn's Marriot is almost consistently booked up. There are some nice B&B's in Park Slope for your money but the demand is far greater than the supply. There is that little auto repair shop on the corner in front of Staples that will eventually close and something tall will be built that covers up the view of the store. I don't doubt that pep boys wouldn't sell if someone offered them the right price. You could bulldoze the Pep Boys and the Staples in a weekend and never known that they even existed on the spot. I like the idea that 4 ave. becomes a boulevard with green space...

Posted by: Anonymous at October 8, 2006 10:32 AM