Work begins on glam hotel near Barclays Center
Eye On Real Estate: Downtown Brooklyn progress report
Work is starting as we speak on the glam hotel that will be Shakespeare’s next-door neighbor.
The city Buildings Department issued a demolition permit in late April for the small commercial building at 95 Rockwell Place – which will be mostly torn down and replaced with an eye-popping high-end boutique hotel designed by high-profile architect Thomas Leeser.
After the demolition, “rubble walls” on the sides of the building will be left standing, said Steve Pfister of Second Development Services (SDS), one of the firms partnering on the hotel.