Opposition to Prospect Hotel Mounting
Over the weekend we were sent a number of statements by people who live in the vicinity of the Prospect Grand Hall, whose owners recently proposed a plan to erect an 11-story building with parking and hotel rooms on the site. While there was plenty of support voiced for the project at last week’s community…
Over the weekend we were sent a number of statements by people who live in the vicinity of the Prospect Grand Hall, whose owners recently proposed a plan to erect an 11-story building with parking and hotel rooms on the site. While there was plenty of support voiced for the project at last week’s community board meeting (including a vote of confidence by the 5th Avenue BID), the emails we saw over the weekend were largely negative.
— “A building and business of that size will have an enormous negative impact on the quality of life for the residents of 16th street. As others have pointed out, we’ve fought hard to have zoning put into place to keep the scale and feel of this neighborhood.”
–“An 11 story hotel on the GPH site is an abomination. It will completely commercialize the block…To preserve our neighborhood this project must be stopped.”
–“As I stood outside my house today I thought about the height and scope of this project. I am concerned about the height of the project, it would loom over anything in the neighborhood, 11 stories, the tallest is about 8 stories on that block (unless I counted/remember incorrectly). In reading the details on IMBY’s blog I also see that houses on 16th would be demo’ed and that bothers me. Even if they currently own the properties, it is the changing of the scale of the neighborhood that is worrisome.”
–“Aside from the infrastructure and traffic issues, the shadow this 110+’ building will cast, the noise, the blight it will make 16th street into with two major driveways cut into the middle of the block all make me very nervous.”
Personally, we can’t see the justification for a variance in this situation, regardless of the kind of impact the project would have.
Oh please with the NIMBYs! This is fronting an expressway for heaven’s sake. I think the area could use a few hotel rooms.
You mean funding will come from terrorists?
Personally, I don’t see it as my business where they get their money. I imagine they’ll borrow some of it, like most developers do, and some will come from their own cash flow.
The Grand Prospect Hall: We Make All OUR Dreams Come True!
“Personally, we can’t see the justification for a variance in this situation, regardless of the kind of impact the project would have.”
Agreed, except one issue, they are not asking for a variance from the BSA, as I’m pretty damn sure they know they won’t get. They are looking for a spot rezoning from City Planning.
And I would have to agree with nonsense, where is the capitol coming from? Especially in lieu of the threats the Hall’s owners have made in fliers and in the news about having to lower the bar on the clientele they book at the hall.
In honor of the Prospect Expressway, now threatened by this ENCROACHMENT.
When Pharaoh ruled all Prospect Ave.
“let my ballroom grow!”
Oppressed so hard they could not dance
“let my ballroom grow!”
Go, dance-hall owners
way down on prospect a-ave
tell Brown, stoner
“let my ballroom grow!”
…seriously. Take it down a notch neighbors. I don’t want to see it stretch through to 16th street but I do want to see it built.
“The comments are all indicitave of the typical mentality for projects like this, but can anyone give any reasons behind their feelings? ”
It will have a negative impact, perhaps, for the people who live in 16th Street, who are the source of many of the comments.
For the rest of the nabe, not so much.
Of course as has been pointed out the devil is in the details, which are sketchy at this point.
I wonder if the anti-AY newly arrived ‘Freddy’s’ will jump on this bandwagon, given that they might would benefit from a new hotel up the block.
The comments are all indicitave of the typical mentality for projects like this, but can anyone give any reasons behind their feelings?
For instance, there is a technical definition of blight (I know, I got it wrong in the first draft of my thesis). Why does anyone feel this would blight the area?
Why would it have a negative impact?
Why is a commercial block fronting on an expressway in danger of being “commercialized”?
How much would the eleven story building of this foot print cost? Do they really have the money for this or is there a silent backer waiting in the shadows? I walk by there every morning and it seems they don’t have the means to maintain the existing structure.
I know this “rendering” style might be what the client wants, but this Etch-a-Sketch / 3rd Grader Art Project style should be considered UNACCEPTABLE for a building requiring public review.
Setting aside that it *looks* stupid, this style can’t really have any real purpose other than maintaining vagueness and making sure there’s plenty of wiggle room through completion of the process. “Oh, that squiggly line represents this — not that!”