Plan for 3rd Ave Hotel Brings Gowanus Total to 7
This is getting kind of crazy. Fencing’s recently gone up around a few old warehouses on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus, and what it means is that there’s yet another hotel planned for the neighborhood. A firm called GF55 Partners is designing a Fairfield Inn between Douglass and Butler streets. According to the GF55 website, it’ll…
This is getting kind of crazy. Fencing’s recently gone up around a few old warehouses on 3rd Avenue in Gowanus, and what it means is that there’s yet another hotel planned for the neighborhood. A firm called GF55 Partners is designing a Fairfield Inn between Douglass and Butler streets. According to the GF55 website, it’ll be 9 stories and have 134 rooms. DOB records confirm those plans, and the city’s issued demolition permits for the existing buildings. With the Holiday Inn Express on Union, the Comfort Inn on Butler, Hotel Le Bleu on 4th Ave., an under-construction hotel on the corner of President and 3rd, and two other hotels planned for President, Gowanus is going to be swimming in hotel rooms. (See map of Gowanus hotel-mania on the jump.) A few folks have left comments when we’ve broken news of other planned hotels saying the owners are banking on the area’s who-knows-when rezone to residential so they can convert the properties to condos. We don’t know whether that would actually be possible or likely. For now, though, it would appear that Gowanus is fixing to have one of highest—if not the highest—concentrations of hotels in Brooklyn.
Some New Action on Gowanus’ Hotel Row [Brownstoner] GMAP
Developer Plans Two Hotels on One Gowanus Block [Brownstoner]
On the bright side, sleeping in one of these places for a night or two won’t have the health effects of living, say on the toll site.
I wish I knew what was coming at 3rd and President, besides a new land mass. The “sandwich shop” is taking forEVER to open.
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A laundromat would be nice, too.
The hotel amenities are sparse because the clientèle is either
a) spending all of their time in Manhattan and stying here because it’s cheap, or
b) spending time with the family in Brooklyn they came to visit.
Good point, Linkinplace. What’s interesting is how barebones the area’s hotel offerings are. Even Le Bleu, which bills itself as at the higher end, lacks a token couple of exercise machines.
well at least they’re within walking distance of many prostitutes.How’s that for nearby amenities: )
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“transformation of third ave… into a horrible strip-mall like area with big box stores and fast food chains.”
So, they are going to transform Third Ave into Fourth Ave?
Here’s a free brilliant idea (since I do not have the millions [or even thousands] to pull it off):
Build a hotel in Staten Island just across from the St. George ferry terminal. The SI Ferry provides free transportation to Manhattan, and the tourists will love it. The land must be cheap.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the first stage of a transformation of third ave, and gowanus in general, into a horrible strip-mall like area with big box stores and fast food chains.