Design for Super-Tall Williamsburg Hotel 'Unlikely'

It turns out the renderings released last week of a high-rise hotel possibly slated for Williamsburg were as pie in the sky as they seemed. The Brooklyn Paper reports today that the site’s owner, Juan Figueroa, wants to build a hotel next to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank but doesn’t have financing to construct anything right now. Figueroa also tells the paper that it’s “unlikely that the design will ultimately be used, but its height is not unthinkable.”
Faulty Tower! Critics Don’t Like the Look of This Modern Hotel [BK Paper]
Crazy Williamsburg Rendering of the Moment [Brownstoner]