Development Watch: 13th Street Hotel Sprouting

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Another story has been added to the future hotel on the corner of 13th Street and 3rd Avenue since we last checked in on it in April. There are currently three hotels open in the greater Gowanus area. Meanwhile, a Super 8 on 3rd Avenue and President Street is scheduled to open any day now, and construction is chugging along at a future Fairfield Inn on the corner of Butler Street and 3rd Avenue. As it stands now, then, there are six hotels that are likely to be in business in the neighborhood in the not-too-distant future, plus plans for at least four more—two on President Street, one on Degraw, and one on 3rd Street—that may or may not come to fruition.
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This whole thing defies logic, especially reading the summary from b'stoner of all of the hotels buit and planned? What is really going on here? Seems like a big conspiracy...

Posted by: newsouthsloper at July 1, 2009 2:58 PM

I really have no idea who will want to stay at a hotel on a gritty industrial truck route across from D&D/Taco Bell
Obviously the hotels plans were drafted when everyone thought "Gowanus" was the next up and coming nabe which it won't be am afraid

Posted by: gemini10 at July 1, 2009 3:18 PM

I don't agree, Gemini...which is odd for us. ;)

I do think Gowanus is quite up and coming. Every time I go down there, there's something new on 3rd Avenue and The Bell House seems to be rockin' it out every time I've been. There are quite a few galleries opening up as well.

The Holiday Inn seems to do a decent business, and as we can see from today, Hotel Le Bleu is getting a pretty high end place for the rooftop.

Considering Brooklyn has 2.5 million or so residents, there is a lot of demand for reasonably priced hotel rooms, I think.

Posted by: 11217 at July 1, 2009 3:26 PM

Kind of related: I heard a rumor that the bar on the top floor of Hotel le Bleu is finally about to open. Third Avenue makes that place look well situated.

Posted by: altervoce at July 1, 2009 3:27 PM

11217 - so true :)

I guess I feel there was lots of chatter about Gowanus a year ago when stuff was opening and then I stopped hearing about it, so my take could be totally off.

Am just not sure about having a hotel situated on that stretch of Gowanus is a great lure for a visitor.
Have you been down there, it ain't pretty and kinda sketchy past midnight!

Posted by: gemini10 at July 1, 2009 4:00 PM

I think many Brooklyn people (and posters here) have a somewhat over-inflated view of what Brooklyn is and the kind of businesses can be successful here. As someone who works closely with tourism companies, CVBs, and hospitality suppliers, I've said many times that hotels like this will definitely find a marketplace here, and furthermore are appropriate for these locations. They serve a clientele that would include, among others, tourists who can't find affordable rooms at larger hotels in Manhattan and Brooklyn, visiting families, small businesspeople who can't afford to blow the company budget on a week at the Waldorf, and even people who work in transportation and tourism. Now, I'm not saying ALL of these places will be successful, but clearly some major hotel companies have made the decision that properties can succeed here, and I would agree. I don't think there's any "conspiracy" unless that's what you call the desire to make money.

Posted by: East New York at July 1, 2009 4:02 PM

I don't think it's going to be HOT, like Williamsburg, HOT Gemini, but I think it will grow more organically into itself and will take years. It shows promise and once/if the Gowanus is cleaned up, it's only a matter of time.

And I agree with ENY on his assessment of the Brooklyn hotel market. I really don't believe Super 8, Holiday Inn, Fairfield Inn just jump into markets without doing some pretty significant research beforehand. Maybe I'm naive, but it's not like Sam Chang who just throws the stuff up wherever he feels like it.

When's the last time you saw a defunct Holiday Inn?

Posted by: 11217 at July 1, 2009 4:27 PM

Well am sure you guys are right. The Holiday Inn on 4th avenue does do business, but have you seen anyone loading/unloading in front of the Le Bleu/ I haven't..ever and I drive past it pretty often(few times a month)
so wondering if their price points are just too high...

Posted by: gemini10 at July 1, 2009 4:31 PM

Very kind of you all to not point out that the so-called rumor about the Hotel le Bleu restaurant was already posted in the Food & Drink Round-Up.

Posted by: altervoce at July 1, 2009 5:41 PM

ENY, while it makes sense that Brooklyn needs hotels, why so many in Gowanus? Or that sad place at the entrance of the Battery tunnel? Aren't there better locations?

Posted by: trudylou at July 2, 2009 10:01 AM

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