Unlike Condominium and Apartment building developments, Hotel/Motel development offers the most flexible occupancy category.

On the surface tourist clientele would appear obvious, but I have a different take on it.

NYC has a growing movie/film industry that’s found our armory facilities make great sound stages.

Unfortunately, there’s only one armory in full use as a set location year round in Brooklyn on Union Street.

The other locations are used as homeless shelters. The more options to house the homeless, the more movie production can occur in the Big Apple.

And movie production fees are a boom to the city’s coffers which the Mayor and City Council would like to see growth in employment and locally owned vendors supporting the industry.

(all while surrendering on set employment quotas of local residents to folks from Long Island, New Jersey and Westchester)

(yup, they opened one in East NY!)

Actually, we have it on fairly good authority (though admittedly not from the horses mouth) that the 1311 Pacific Street project is not tied up in the lawsuit drama of the other Hello Living buildings.

As we understand it, the developer of the other Hello Living buildings, Eli Karp, is indeed part owner of 1311 Pacific, but the investor group that is suing him is not. He has a different partner on that project.

I actually just checked out the reviews of the Quality Inn that is located further up at the East NY LIRR station on Atlantic:http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=11558117664942588867&q=quality%2Binn&hl=en&gl=us&view=feature&mcsrc=detailed_reviews&num=10&start=0&ved=0CGAQuAU&sa=X&ei=U4d9S5mPNI_uMqWMnYAF.

Most of the commentary is not about the hotel itself, but about the surrounding neighborhood. Granted, Nostrand Ave is much more visitor friendly than the East NY stop, and of course Crown Heights really has tons of great things to offer to interested travellers, but people are going to have to get over the psychological hurdle of that immediate surrounding area – which feels a bit gritty – in order to get to really exploring.

I could be wrong, but if you are a tourist who is adventurous enough to stay at that location, you may specifically want the Nostrand Ave flavor.

I specifically envision young, deep pocketed Africans, (Nigerians), West Indians, Europeans, Rasta Culture loving Japanese etc. You can have a feel of “authentic” Brooklyn, yet still be a LIRR ride to AY or the airport train.

Not to mention the Southern, Middle Class Older crowd Coming up North for local Church functions or to visit relatives , but don’t want to crash at the relatives homes.

I specifically envision yung, deep pocketed Africans, (Nigerians), West Indians, Europeans, Radta Culture loving Japanese etc. You can have a feel of “authentic” Brooklyn, yet still be a LIRR ride to AY or the airport train.

Not to mention the Southern, Midfle Class Older crowd Coming up North for local Church functions or to visit relatives , but don’t want to crash at the relatives homes,

@nat – I agree and I think this neighborhood could certainly benefit from tourist dollars. Why should Manhattan get all the love?

We have a lot of tourist worthy attractions. CHNA’s working to make Crown Heights home to the largest historic district in Brooklyn, we have one of the largest Caribbean communities in the United States, and we have the culturally rich Hasidic Lubavitch community (which actually already has a couple of popular tours).

Nostrand Avenue businesses could definitely be the beneficiaries of the tourist traffic that comes through, however, tourists have to feel comfortable stepping foot on Nostrand.

Unfortunately, as it currently stands, I can see tourists bypassing the local attractions and keeping their tunnel vision set on Manhattan (or AY as the case may be)…