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]
“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.
Whenever I visit family and friends outside of NY, sometimes I stay with them, or I stay in motels and inns in the area. IN NYC the latter option practically doesn’t exist.
In October, for a cousin’s funeral here in Bklyn, we had lots of family and friends flying in from out of town, and it was a scramble trying to finds places for people to stay. Some stayed at that hotel on Utica Avenue, thank goodness. For other family members and friends, we just packed them into already small apts and houses. This just adds stress to an already stressful situation. We need hotels, motels and inns, decent ones, in Brooklyn and the outer boroughs.
Kind of amazing. 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.
I agree that with the over construction, many of these (particularly the 3rd Avenue ones) will become SROs or some kind of assisted living facilities. Many of them look like nursing homes from the outside.
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European and Asian tourists, to gawk at this “Park Slope thing.”
ugh please no.
and congrats heather on your blog making the top 11 nyc blog list in this week’s village voice!
*rob*
“I can’t think of a better symbol of Brooklyn’s progress than new hotels…” said Borough Prez Marty Markowitz
It’s also a symbol of the death of Brooklyn’s industrial base. Hotels are permitted in manufacturing districts, and in areas like Gowanus are by far the most viable use the zoning allows.
BK Marriott top occupancy levels in country. Nothing would be going ahead without massive study and examination of results of current hotels. Huge equity needed to build these, ain’t no 80 or 70% financing, no one doing that for fun.
BK a 2.5 million person city seriously under-served. Who stays here? foreigners, cool people, tourists who’ve done manhattan, parents visiting kids, spouses kicked out of homes, sex trade, fun… Molto obvious-oh.
European and Asian tourists, to gawk at this “Park Slope thing.”
wellheythere, you are correct.
this is actually good news for transients like myself. many of these WILL become SRO’s with the upcoming economic apocalypse (people seriously need to stop drinking the koolaid listening to people saying we are going to get out of this mess. we are not)
*rob*
Future SROs!
I can see a potential market for more reasonably-priced hotels that have good transport links. Hotels in Manhattan have been gouging for decades.