Hotel Plans for 86th Street Posted on The Fence
Here’s the plans for the hotel on the fence of the lot at 640 -86th Street – this is the lot where the old gas station was (see here)
Why didn’t Councilman Brannan’s newsletter tell the community that the hotel construction was starting?
The original plan was for a 95 room hotel – see here. This hotel will be across the street from the new middle school that is being built at the Nathan’s lot.
This hotel is planning to open in Fall 2023.
Notice the hotel’s logo on the side is Avid Hotel, which had plans for the area for awhile.
The Avid Hotel is part of the IGH group. These hotels are near airports. The photo above is the Avid Hotel in Boston. (photos of rooms here)
Newspapers aren’t sharing this information because reporters for the area don’t live here in Bay Ridge or they are pumping up a political party and don’t want to discuss how the community found out about this project from a website – not the local representatives.
In March 2020, the developer filed a permit for the hotel. We questioned why a website was telling Bay Ridge about the hotel and not the elected Councilman. Councilman Brannan wrote this online:
Obviously the developer didn’t like what Brannan had to say because a hotel is being built here.
Councilman Brannan continued to tell residents that this lot wasn’t going to be a hotel.
Hotel owners want to make money by housing the homeless through the city’s program. People from Manhattan were bused to Downtown Brooklyn to be housed in a boutique hotel. (See here)
Eric Adams wants to changed 25,000 hotels rooms into affordable housing – see here.
In 2019, Brannan wrote that he was meeting with the developer of this lot. Why didn’t Brannan address the community about this development in 2019 or 2020 – when he had information?
Senator Andrew Gounardes also represents the area and has never mentioned a hotel being built on 86th Street – when you vote for people make sure they care about the community they are trying to represent.
If you think Eric Adams is going to be any different, think again:
Hugs,
marlene
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