Starwood & Toll Brothers Chosen to Develop Hotel & Residential Near Pier One

By on June 19, 2012 2:20 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Commercial Real Estate, Development, News

As anticipated, Mayor Bloomberg’s office announced today that the proposal for a hotel and residential complex on the space between Furman Street and Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park submitted by Starwood Capital Group and Toll Brothers has been selected. The image (thanks to Curbed) shows how the buildings will look from the Promenade. As you can see, they will partially obstruct the view of the Brooklyn Bridge and largely obscure the view of Pier 1.

According to the Curbed article linked above, the hotel will have 200 rooms and the residential portion will have 159 units. The article also quotes from the Mayor’s press release:

The proposed building plan will feature nearly 16,000 square feet of restaurant space, 16,000 square feet of banquet and meeting space, 2,000 square feet of retail space, a 6,000-square-foot spa and fitness center and 300 parking spaces. It also includes park restrooms as well as maintenance space for park operations.

The hotel will be named Hotel 1.

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  • yoohoo

    @Neighbor Hood and Mr. Crusty, I admit the “overflowing” BBP was a bit of hyperbole, but the fact remains that one can barely find a quiet corner on Pier 1 on sunny weekends. But I’m sure even YOU must admit that the water park on Pier 6 is jam-packed, unfortunately due to the many adults that must be present to supervise their charges, and the kayak lines are LONG. Therefore, park advocates look forward to the speedy completion of the swimming pool, Pier 5 and the Picnic Peninsula.

    Don’t forget to visit Photoville on the weekend.

  • Neighbor Hood

    @yohoo….think you misunderstood my post. I believe I was quoting you as saying the park is jammed (which I think is true also), hence my adding that to my list of concerns that the champions of the hotel/condo mess like Crusty and, I believe you, we’re conveniently glossing over.

  • yoohoo

    Flashlight Worthy,

    thank you for your comments. I’ve been merely a park advocate since that Port Authority revelation in the mid-1980’s and am now a volunteer, therefore I know nothing. Thank you for the part you play in the BBP Conservancy; if it weren’t for the Conservancy and its supporters (of which I’m one), BBP wouldn’t be what it is and will be.

    Tthe park’s popularity has quickly produced some unexpected consequences, particularly for the residents of Fulton Ferry, in the form of endless parades of sightseeing buses and other vehicular traffic, particularly on weekends and far into the night.

    Probably nobody outside the BBP Corp.’s board of directors knows whether the BBP Corp’s function will remain the same, or change, once the park has been completed. I was merely weighing the possibilities while I hoped to shed a little light on the difficult process of park development to where we are. I’m just saddened that preconceived ideas and resistance to rational thinking lead to condemnation.

  • yoohoo

    @Neighbor Hood, I understand you, but as the park expands the visitors can disperse. The users of the future athletic facilities will enlarge the visitation many times over. I doubt hotel guests will exert wear and tear on the park. I also have no idea whether and to what extent it’s the residents of One BBP who play volleyball on Pier 6, sit with their small children, if they have any, in one of the playgrounds, jog back and forth, or go to sit on the Bridge and Harbor View Lawn on Pier 1. The expected number of future residents on Pier 1 will be but a small increment in the overall number of visitors. And, if you walk in the park during the winter months when “nothing happens,”you know the park is VERY quiet and looks almost forsaken. In this respect, we should look forward to having hotel guests and residents around.

    I urge every person here to attend the June 25 meeting on the BBP Fieldhouse to learn what is being planned and to provide input of what else you would like to see built. The meeting takes place at 6:30 p.m. at St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street. As few people know what a velodrome and track-racing is, if any of you happens to be a track racer or use a fixed-gear bike, please attend. If you know someone who is or does, please urge him/her to come to the meeting. The proposed infield uses are basketball, tennis, and gymnastics.

  • Andrew Porter

    Again, I want to thank everyone for posting their opinions using their real names.

  • http://lizbuckley@mac.com liz buckley

    One’s heart just sinks.

    I hope and pray the view from the Promenade will not be as horrible as it looks in the architectural drawings. I fear this hotel will destroy another magnificent, sweeping vista of the Brooklyn Bridge, as did the box over Jane’s Carousel. (Was the architect’s hubris caught up in comparing himself with IM Pei and the Louve?)

    Too bad the original park designers could not have shaped the hotel + upcoming commercial space. Their sensitivity to the human scale is what makes everyone love BBPark. I fear we will have another Winter Park on our hands – you know how people clamor to use that space.

  • WillowSt.Neighbor

    Liz,
    What a thoughtful sensitive post. No one has been able to put into words what I was feeling but you just did.
    Bravo.

  • Neighbor Hood

    I second you Liz…it’s almost unbelievable that it could happen. Not to mention everyone knows how different the final actual building ALWAYS ends up looking in comparison to the idyllic renderings they submit.
    “Don’t it always seem to go
    That you don’t know what you’ve got
    Till it’s gone “

  • Mitt Romney

    @yoohoo – thanks, although, I’m also familiar with the MTA’s propensity to spend enormous sums of money on things that are marginally necessary or just exorbitantly overpriced

    therefore, there’s a pretty good chance of a subway station coming to the BBP

    @AndrewPorter – I have some change for you – 32 cents, to be exact ;

  • fast_walker

    Stuart, Mr. Crusty, second you posts. I didn’t get a chance to purchase a brownstone here in 1985, so when my mother-in-law comes to town, I’d like her to stay in a pleasant hotel away from fulton mall. Luckily those who are upset about the view from the dirty and poorly maintained promenade can use the new bridge to come down to the park and enjoy the view from there.

  • David on Middagh

    Fast_talker, if the Promenade needs cleaning and maintenance, is the solution to build a ten-story hotel complex and privatize the vista?

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