Brooklyn Has 40 Hotels in the Pipeline
Twelve new hotels are scheduled to open in Brooklyn this year, and there are another 28 in the works, according to an article this morning in The Brooklyn Eagle. The Eagle got its data from an industry group called Smith Travel Research. Here’s how the 40 projects break down: – In construction: 15 projects, 1,588…
Twelve new hotels are scheduled to open in Brooklyn this year, and there are another 28 in the works, according to an article this morning in The Brooklyn Eagle. The Eagle got its data from an industry group called Smith Travel Research. Here’s how the 40 projects break down:
– In construction: 15 projects, 1,588 rooms.
– In final planning: two projects, 50 rooms.
– In planning: 21 projects, 1,862 rooms.
– In pre-planning: two projects, 305 rooms.
As we reported earlier this week, there’s been a hotel building boom in Gowanus of late, and there’s going to be four hotels on one block of Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn (including the Sheraton and Aloft shown above) when all’s said and done. I can’t think of a better symbol of Brooklyn’s progress than new hotels, which started back in 1998 with the opening of Brooklyn’s first new hotel in nearly 70 years — the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, which has expanded in the past few years and is doing great business,” said Borough Prez Marty Markowitz. The big question is: If you build them, will they come?
40 Hotel Projects in Pipeline for Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
The Brooklyn Eagle makes it sound like the Hotel Indigo on Duffield is already done, since they have already reported on the planned opening by the end of 2009. Brownstoner has already called BS on that here: http://tinyurl.com/yawdk32 …but now that seems to have been forgotten.
I posted a photo of this supposed Hotel Indigo at http://duffieldst.blogspot.com/
I’m not the same Heather, no.
Seems like many Brooklyn neighborhoods (not just Williamsburg) have lots of young residents whose parents come to visit and need a place to stay. I think that market alone could sustain many hotels.
“When I got married in 1996, there were virtually no hotels in Brooklyn. Our out of town guests, stayed at the LaGuardia hotels because the Manhattan hotels were too pricey.”
Exactly. When I visit friends outside of NY, sometimes I stay with them or I stay in local motels and inns. In NYC, the latter option practically doesn’t exist.
In October, for a cousin’s funeral here in bklyn, we had TONS of famiy and friends fly in from out of town. Some stayed in the hotel on Utica Avenue (thank goodness for that option) while for the rest we just divided them up between other friends and relatives, who already live in small apts and houses. It just adds stress to an already stressful situation.
Brooklyn and the other boroughs really do need decent affordable hotels, motels and inns.
Rob – don’t know if this Heather is the same as newyorkshitty Heather…
NYTimes, Dec. 31, 2009
“Through November, the occupancy rate for hotels in Manhattan was 80.6 percent”
Who said the manhattan hotels are half empty?!
Heather – what’s your blog???
If most of the NYC hotels are sitting half empty, why build even more hotels in BK?
As Brooklyn becomes more of its own city (in addition to being a borough of Manhattan, this makes total sense.
Lots of people in Brooklyn want to shop closer to home now instead of going to Manhattan, they spend more of their leisure time closer to home (instead of going to Manhattan) and in general I see a shift where Brooklyn is sort of becoming more of it’s own independent city with a burgeoning downtown and it’s own hotels and it’s own stores, etc.