After Years of Delays, Holiday Inn on Schermerhorn Street Now Rising

The Gene Kaufman-designed Holiday Inn on Schermerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn, in the works going back to 2008 at least, has reached six stories. The large lot at 300 Schermerhorn Street between Bond and Nevins will eventually become a 14-story, 247-unit hotel, according to the most recent DOB permits.

The rendering shows only 12 stories, which was the original plan for the hotel when permits were first approved two years ago. Construction signs say that the project will finish in “winter 2014,” which probably originally meant early this year, but we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they mean at the end of it.

The developers are still the Mehta family, which bought the 13,765-square-foot site for $11,000,000 in 2007. Curbed first published a rendering for the hotel in December, and we’ve included it after the jump. It matches the one posted on the fence.

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