Not everyone is happy about the hotel boom: Industrial businesses say it has hit their neighborhoods with great force, making space scarcer and more expensive. A new study backs up that narrative, finding at least 115 hotels in M1-zoned areas, which are set aside for light manufacturing, and about 75 more on the way.
The report, by the Brooklyn-based Pratt Center for Community Development, also found that at least 11 hotels have been built since 2007 in industrial building zones, or IBZs, which were established in some manufacturing districts to further protect businesses there from residential development. Another 16 hotels are in the pipeline for IBZs.
Overall, the number of hotels in the city grew by 180, or 35%, between 2004 and 2013, according to the report.
Hotels can be built without any special approval in industrial areas, such as the garment district, Long Island City in Queens and the Gowanus and Williamsburg sections of Brooklyn. Tourism was at much lower levels when the zoning was written, and there was no expectation that guests would want to stay in gritty sections of the city with noisy machinery, trucks and few amenities—or anywhere outside of Manhattan, for that matter.
5 comments:
Hotels in industrial areas, sounds like hooker hotels to me.
It will take this city thousand of years before any zoning changes to put a limit to this.
SOP. If your hotel isn't making money, the City will pay top dollar to house the Homeless.
Worker barracks and Section 8 housing far from those that complain.
You will see no effort at any change.
Note that Mystery Man Mike Gianaris as well as Cathy Nolan are silent on this.
Again, the hotel boom is here to stay. It is the city's future homeless housing plan, plain and simple. The city is required by law to house homeless, and the private sector will provide the spaces. This is not rocket science. You don't see housing projects going up, do you?
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