96 Wythe Avenue rendering (Credit: HWKN)
A new hotel planned for Williamsburg’s Wythe Avenue may wear its insides on the outside.
Adventurous architects HWKN have released renderings for a new hotel planned for 96 Wythe Avenue, between North 12th and north 11th streets.
Made of brick, the 50,000-square-foot funky hotel is to be topped with steel bones, graced with balconies on one side and topped by a steel topiary that resembles a bell tower. The Real Deal first reported developer Heritage Equity Partner’s plans to develop a 150-room hotel on the site in June 2012 — a project then slated for completion within 24 months.
The project is being developed by Heritage Equity Partners, which recently snapped up a number of properties in the area, including 19 Kent Avenue, a 160,000-square foot site for which the developer and partner Michael Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Advisory Group, paid about $30 million in October 2012, and 310 North 7th Street, which the company bought in May 31 for $9.45 million. [Curbed] – Julie Strickland