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November 7, 2008

Another Hotel for The Burg

union-avenue-hotel-1108.jpgThe last piece of the puzzle is falling into place on Union Avenue, reports Curbed. This part of W'burg just east of the BQE is undergoing quite a boom, with a cluster of Karl Fischer buildings rising along with this Scarano one we looked at earlier this week. The coup de grace: A six-story, 54-room hotel on the site of the Getty Station at 447 Union Avenue. DOB app here.




Posted by Brownstoner at 12:15 PM | Comments (9)
Categories: Development, Hotels, Williamsburg

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I live around the block from this area, and I can tell you the one thing we DONT need is a hotel. I'd much rather keep the gas station. Traffic is already so bad here at this intersection by Kellogs that a hotel is going to do nothing but add taxi traffic into the mix. Wonderful.

Posted by: williamsburgguy at November 7, 2008 12:38 PM

williamsburg definitely needs a hotel, but I am not sure that this location is the best spot.....where do you guys think would be a better place for a hotel ?

Posted by: AJAS at November 7, 2008 2:15 PM

Manhattan

Posted by: williamsburgguy at November 7, 2008 3:17 PM

AJAS, the Walentases may do a hotel on the North Side:
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/06/hurdles_questio.php

Posted by: brownstoner at November 7, 2008 3:21 PM

Anybody have any idea how that other neighborhood hotel -- Frost Street? Richardson? -- is doing? I'd hate for this to be a (small "e") econo-lodge, like the one on Union Street. Williamsburg has enough cachet that a developer should go with the boutique concept, and find a location to match.

Posted by: altervoce at November 7, 2008 5:21 PM

Yes, cachet. That's what that is.

Altervoice, you do know know that Union STREET is in Park Slope, right?

Posted by: Heather at November 7, 2008 9:13 PM

williamsburg hotels like this if done well will probably get filled with the guests of locals and for sure with a certain type of visitor who wants to be really close to the city and will partake of the local music/restaurant/bar scene. in my biz (photo production) i have 2 photographers from out of town (LA/Berlin) that only stay in williamsburg when they are in town. they find apts on line and such right now. the plans for the walentas hotel are pretty killer actually.

Posted by: wine lover at November 7, 2008 11:39 PM

Yep, Heather, I lived in Park Slope for many years and Williamsburg twice as long. I know the difference between Union Street and Union Avenue as well as the difference between Grand Street and Grand Avenue, and the last isn't even in a neighborhood I lived in. Worldly I am. But it seemed to me that the Holiday Inn Express on Union, all-caps, STREET was a good example of the type of architecturally awful motel that I hope doesn't get built where Union Avenue and Keap Street converge. So, that said, DOES anyone have a sense of how Hotel Le Jolie on Meeker, between Union and Lorimer, is doing?

Posted by: altervoce at November 8, 2008 11:12 AM

The last I heard (on this blog in a comment so not sure how accurate) they had hourly rates.

I will be surprised if the Union Ave luxury strip ever gets finished, honestly -- but a Holiday Inn Express on Union AVENUE makes almost as much sense as a gas station to me -- which is to say, a lot more sense than a luxury hotel.

Posted by: Heather at November 10, 2008 7:57 AM

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