LOWER EAST SIDE — The facade of a boutique hotel under construction on Broome Street has been revealed after scaffolding was dismantled this weekend, as first reported by Bowery Boogie.
The 45-room, 13,155-square-foot hotel remains unnamed, but permits from the Department of Buildings indicate the establishment — awash in mustard-colored light at night — will feature a rooftop bar above its seven stories.
News of the project first broke in the fall of 2012, when a source tipped off Curbed that demolition permits had been filed for the properties at 263 and 265 Broome St., a five-story tenement and adjoining low-rise building that were listed for $7.5 million.
Sun Sun Property Investment, the real estate developers financing the project, and designers SM Tam Architect haven’t released much in the way of renderings since images were posted near the site when the former buildings were razed and construction began in 2013.
When the currently nameless hotel opens, it will join a number of existing businesses in the immediate area, including Blue Moon Hotel, Marriott Fairfield Inn, Comfort Inn and Howard Johnson, among others popping up in the Lower East Side.