Behold, the Latest Gowanus Hotel!
What you see above is a rendering of the hotel planned for a lot on Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th avenues, a property that’s set to be the latest addition to the swelling Gowanus Hotel District. The architect on the project is Kutnicki Bernstein, and its developer, Alec Shtromandel, reports that “we will be…
What you see above is a rendering of the hotel planned for a lot on Degraw Street between 3rd and 4th avenues, a property that’s set to be the latest addition to the swelling Gowanus Hotel District. The architect on the project is Kutnicki Bernstein, and its developer, Alec Shtromandel, reports that “we will be commencing work in 8 weeks time, and should be finished in 12 months.” Before this one’s finished, the hotel at President Street and 3rd Avenue, which is now almost fully constructed, should be open. Meanwhile, work’s under way at the future Fairfield Inn site on 3rd Ave between Douglass and Butler. All of which is to say that it’s seeming likely that six Gowanus hotels (existing stock=Le Bleu, Holiday Inn Express, and Comfort Inn) will be up and running in a year or so. Three additional hotels, meanwhile, are planned for the neighborhood. Councilman Bill de Blasio has categorized the Gowanus hotel boomlet as something of a red light district in the making. Time will tell!
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Rode my bike past the Comfort Inn on Butler between 3rd and 4th I think it is. The guests standing outside and getting out of their cars looked SO uncomfortable. Welcome to Brooklyn and one of the ugliest streets imaginable.
Or is it the opening for a new Mr. Rogers type show?
this looks like something i would have drawn using PrintShop on my Apple IIe in 1985.
How much lipstick are they putting on the Wyckoff Houses?
Is it actually cardboard?
with a room in Manhattan costing $350 or more, frugal travelers will flock to these hotels near mass transit. Yes there is always a risk that they will become hot sheets but if the police enforce the rules and threaten the hotels with seizure that won’t happen(much) either….The Governor needs a new hotel for his girl friends(and I don’t meant Eliot)….
itsagas, exactly. There can’t be this much demand for a hotel in this part of Brooklyn.
I also wonder if some of these “hotels” are being constructed with an eye to converting them into housing when the economy balances out.
itsagas…haven’t you been reading the real estate threads??? Europeans with Euros coming to buy brownstones!!!
Otherwise they will turn into the much-needed “hot sheet” red light district. There’s been a severe lack of short-time hotels since the mutant real estate bubble began inflating. Aren’t even any cheap places over in hell’s Kitchen anymore for a quickie!!!
Who’s going to stay in all these places?