Development Watch: 3rd Avenue Fairfield Inn
The future Fairfield Inn on 3rd Avenue and Butler has risen pretty high since the last time we checked in on it. It also now has what we consider to be the best advertising campaign of any hotel ever. A banner on the building proclaims, “The Excitement of Being…Brooklyn’s First Fairfield Inn. Coming Soonish.” Excitingish!…
The future Fairfield Inn on 3rd Avenue and Butler has risen pretty high since the last time we checked in on it. It also now has what we consider to be the best advertising campaign of any hotel ever. A banner on the building proclaims, “The Excitement of Being…Brooklyn’s First Fairfield Inn. Coming Soonish.” Excitingish!
Development Watch: SWO at Future Fairfield Inn [Brownstoner] GMAP
Fairfield Inn [Official Site]
Boerum Hill:
The cluster is due to antiquated city zoning laws written in the days when hotels catered to transient vagrants and prostitutes. Sadly, despite the fact Brooklyn is very much in need of more hotels in residential neighborhoods, they are mostly restricted to Downtown Brooklyn and industrial districts.
Land values downtown only really justify new residential development or higher end hotels, so hotels like this can’t be built anywhere else. Personally, I’d love to see a fine new hotel near Prospect Park on Eastern Parkway. It would really do wonders for the neighborhood and turn the area into the major destination it should be.
“Who is staying at these places?”
I went through all of this yesterday. See the “Super 8” thread.
this one is bit farther from subway then the others in the area. Yet most people who stay at motels in this country are
quite used to “the excitement of the smell of gasoline and cleaning fluids rising from the Citgo gas station and car wash across the street, the excitement of waking up to the sound of truck traffic avoiding the rush hour crowd on 4th avenue, the exciting of opening your window and staring out onto the lot across the street ” – because that is about the setting for most of them.
I think this area of Brooklyn has real potential and has been changing noticeably in the past couple of years. That said, I just do not get this thing with the cluster of discount hotels in the area. Who is staying at these places?
Yes, fsrg. As I mentioned it’s an indication that there is a marketplace for this class of hotel in this area.
Ah yes, the excitement of the smell of gasoline and cleaning fluids rising from the Citgo gas station and car wash across the street, the excitement of waking up to the sound of truck traffic avoiding the rush hour crowd on 4th avenue, the exciting of opening your window and staring out onto the lot across the street that looks like a junk yard (what the heck is that business anyway?) and the excitement of walking past a bonafide NYC housing project at 3AM after a drunken night of exploration in the city followed by a subway ride to the train station several blocks away because a cabbie refused to bring you to Brooklyn when there were so many fares asking to be taken to the midtown hotels instead. (exhale) Good times!
ENY – see yet another Hotel at the same price point…..
Better soonish than laterish.