Hampton Inn Expansion Continues Downtown Brooklyn Hotel Boom

It seems like every time you turn around, another hotel sprouts up in Downtown Brooklyn.

Or at least they’re getting larger. The 13-story Hampton Inn, located at 125 Flatbush Avenue Extension, has taken over the space next door at 156 Tillary Street, where a four-story building was demolished in 2014.

This was not always part of the plan. Early renderings of the Hampton Inn show the building at 156 Tillary Street still intact.

Construction on the 22-story expansion began in 2015 and is now complete. It received a temporary certificate of occupancy at the beginning of November.

On the ground floor of the extension is SaltBrick Tavern, which opened on November 14. The space, which includes outdoor seating, was designed by New York-based Glen & Co. Architecture, who worked on Mario Batali’s Del Posto in Manhattan, among other projects.

Since the Bloomberg Administration’s 2004 rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn, massive development has been on the rise.

According to building permits, the third City Point tower, currently under construction at 138 Willoughby, will be 68 stories and 745 feet tall, while the first supertall skyscraper at 9 Dekalb Avenue, aka 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension — which will be fused to the landmarked Dime Savings Bank — will become the borough’s tallest building at 1,066 feet.

And that’s not to mention the controversial full-block development at 80 Flatbush Avenue with a proposed 925-foot-tall tower, which will soon enter the ULURP process.

The Hampton Inn is joined by a number of other new hotels that have risen in the area. Down the street is The Tillary at 85 Flatbush Ave Extension — formerly called The Dazzler Brooklyn before it underwent a rebrand in September 2017 — plus a number of hotels on Duffield Street near City Point, and the Hilton Brooklyn at 140 Schermerhorn Street, to name only a few.

[Photos by Susan De Vries unless noted otherwise]

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