Gowanus Boutique Hotel About Ready to Rock
For a building that’s been in the planning process since 2003, the Andres Escobar-designed boutique hotel rising on the former site of a plumbing supply warehouse on Fourth Avenue certainly has flown up in record time. Back in November, the chatter was that the owner was shooting for a first quarter opening, an event that…
For a building that’s been in the planning process since 2003, the Andres Escobar-designed boutique hotel rising on the former site of a plumbing supply warehouse on Fourth Avenue certainly has flown up in record time. Back in November, the chatter was that the owner was shooting for a first quarter opening, an event that seems increasingly unlikely with each passing day of March. Has anyone heard anything recently about opening dates or rates? We’d settle for a name.
Gowanus Boutique Hotel Gets Its Glass On [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Its a smal hotel only 48 rooms so it will probably be in the upper $200-$400dollar range. If any developer has land they want to build into a hotel contact me at luciferbumps@yahoo.com. I am willing to open a hotel with you in Brooklyn. I love the area and it deserves a great place to host it’s visitors.
can check this hotel res. site for amenities. Says opening in April but site isn’t taking reservations yet.
So must not be firm date so far.
http://www.hotelconxions.com/Default.aspx?tabid=131&SpecialId=187&HotelId=ote0207BP50114846
not true of the ozzie’s on 7th ave. people could not be any more friendly, in my opinion…the staff and the customers.
i’ve actually met 2 people there in the last 3 months (since i’ve lived in the hood) that we ended up going out on a date.
i absolutely disagree re: ozzie’s
ozzie’s and starbucks. they both suck for different reasons. i used to wish for a local coffee shop, then I got one (gorilla) now I wish they would go away. Wi fi has ruined the coffee shop idea. No one even looks at anyone because they are on they stupid computers looking at dumb blogs…
is there anyway we can band together and stop drinking coffee from starbucks??? please! let’s make it a brownstoner thing and see if we can make it spread.
anyone?
who would go to the starbucks on 7th ave in the slope when there’s an ozzie’s!
that place rocks!!!!
i heard they are openning in april first week and i seen there where one more hotel comming up in Atlantic Ave.
David,
Heh, yeah, no doubt.
They (Starbucks) did break through the $1MM annual average revenues per US store mark last year, but none of that matters if they get killed on cost of goods sold.
So yeah, maybe whatever was offered was just for initial period to offset opportunity cost of existing business closing.
Webster – While Starbucks does pay alot of $ for rent on certain locations, they are actually pretty schrewed in their negotiations and tend not to pay so much above market and wont agree to crazy escalations. They often make the LL kick in a sizeable amount of cash to fix up their stores and have a tremondous list of prerequisites that the LL must agree to provide before they’ll generally enter a lease.
The fact is that (Generally) a LL wants a tenant like Stbucks so bad that they’ll agree.
The only way this story makes any sense is if the rent you suggest was for the 1st yr or 2 to compensate the pizzeria for giving up the store, otherwise if Stbucks is paying $320sq ft for retail space on Court Street I’ve got a new stock to short.
Wow. I still remember when workers who fell into the Gowanus canal had to go to the emergency room for massive doses of antibiotics. I like the “Glass half full.” Funny.