Development Watch: Gene Kaufman's Billyburg Hotel

Architect Gene Kaufman has been busy in Brooklyn. His projects—Dunham, Rialto, Shaefer Landing, Decora, just to mention some in Williamsburg alone—have garnered their share of negative reviews, including when we called Verdi on Adelphi an “over-the-top eyesore”, so it’s with trepidation that we are watching the beginning stages of Kaufman’s new residential hotel project between North 11th and North 12th streets in Williamsburg. According to DOB filings from March 2008, the development at 135 North 11th between Bedford and Berry will include a seven-story hotel, with over 25,000 square feet, and two residential buidlings: one with seven stories, 16,553 square feet, and 15 units, and the other with six stories, 44,308 square feet, and 43 units. Team Kaufman has joined up with old friend Kiska Development for the project, but hasn’t released renderings of the buildings yet. So we’ll just have to wait and see. GMAP P*Shark DOB
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