DOB Green-Lights Cambria Suites Hotel on Schermerhorn
More than a year after the news that Cambria Suites had entered an agreement with a franchiser to build the brand’s first Brooklyn location, the Department of Buildings signed off on the New Building application for a 12-story, 300-room hotel at 75 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The developer for the project paid $22,750,000 for…
More than a year after the news that Cambria Suites had entered an agreement with a franchiser to build the brand’s first Brooklyn location, the Department of Buildings signed off on the New Building application for a 12-story, 300-room hotel at 75 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The developer for the project paid $22,750,000 for the 17,000-square-foot lot a year ago and plans to erect a 175,000-square-foot hotel on the site. According to a Brooklyn Eagle article last year, the new hotel will have a swimming pool, fitness center, coffee bar and conference rooms on site; as of this morning, though, the parking lot business that’s taken up the site for many years was still in full swing. Cambria Suites will have to compete with the 247-unit hotel down the road at 300 Schermerhorn Street. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Unfortuantely yes — the entrance will be on Schermerhorn (so from Boerum, taxis can make a right and hit the entrance).
And while I agree that they should know that a parking lot is only temporary in NY, there are lots of people who either ignore the fact or choose to believe fast-talking brokers.
And it is not a “luxury” hotel.
That parking lot is particularly ugly, even as parking lots go, and it will be nice to see it gone.
I always see this site referred to as 75 Schermerhorn, not as whatever the corresponding Livingston address would be. Does that imply the hotel will face Schermerhorn?
I agree with you 11201.
If I bought a courtyard facing apt. at 110 Livingston, it would be MY responsibility to look out the window when viewing the property and see a vacant lot and ask about it, if it’s a concern.
To expect it would stay vacant forever would be foolish.
If you want a view that will never vanish, buy on a park or on the water.
I doubt anyone at 110 Livingston bought a unit facing the inner courtyard expecting light and views.
Anyway, isn’t it vastly preferably to have an upscale hotel next door to your apartment rather than a parking lot surrounded by barb wire?
BrooklynLove, the last 20 years are one thing. The past 5 years is another. I don’t think it’s a radical idea that it would happen.
People laughed at me in the 1980s when I said Williamsburg would be a boomtown: “Who would want to live in warehouses?” Apparently enough people.
There goes the light/views for all those “courtyard” facing condos at 110 Livingston.
Jack – I can count the number of hotel to condo/co-op conversions in all of nyc during the last 20 years on one hand. if the developer wanted to put up a condo building he’d do it now or sit on the land and do it later.
Love it Biff.
I really don’t mind Polemicist pretending like he’s smart.
It’s kinda cute.
Junkman:
“Point I am making, is that a lot of very smart people see a future in Downtown Brooklyn otherwise they wouldn’t all be making such a significant investment.”
Hmmm. Well, you have a point, but are these buildings built not only to be hotels but to stay as hotels? Could it be possible that they are opened as hotels but then a few years later they suddenly turn into “luxury” housing?
I’m willing to bet there’s a backdoor condo/coop aspect to the sudden hotel boom.