Due to lack of our all-volunteer staff’s time, this blog has been dormant since the end of the multi-part “Mayflower” (Wyndham Garden) Hotel construction series several years ago. But that hotel is back in the news and soon this blog … Continue reading →
At the Community Board 8 Liquor License Committee meeting, representatives from the Mayflower Business Group revealed that the 186th St hotel would carry the Wyndham Garden brand. The Wyndham Hotel Group describes this brand as follows: Wyndham Garden® an upper-midscale … Continue reading →
Earlier in January, the management of the 186th Street hotel appeared before the Liquor License Committee of Community Board 8 seeking a full liquor license for a bar inside the hotel. Blossom Ho, representing the hotel explained the bar would … Continue reading →
Note: This blog mined the publicly available documents filed with the NYC Department of Buildings on behalf of the 186th Street hotel project to develop the answers in this FAQ. Q: How many stories tall will this hotel be? … Continue reading →
By building the 186th Street Hotel “as of right,” the Mayflower Business Group needed only to follow all NYC Department of Buildings (DOB) rules and regulations, file appropriate paperwork, and get approval from the DOB to begin. In 2012, that … Continue reading →
See anything odd near the bottom of this vintage 1951 aerial photograph of the Fresh Meadows main shopping center? Five little houses seem to intrude on the west parking lot. Not part of the development, they were built shortly before … Continue reading →
As noted in Saturday’s blog entry, The New York Times discussed the EB-5 Visa program in yesterday’s edition, That “immigrant investor” program awards an entrance visa and gives fast track access to permanent resident status. To qualify, one needs to … Continue reading →
Fresh Meadows have learned in recent years that some Mayflowers, such as the Mayflower Business Group LLC of Great Neck, NY, are not as nice as the May flowers that grace our community. In the coming week, the FMTA blog … Continue reading →
As many tenants have noticed, and as The Queens Courier notes in its September 4th issue, foundation work has been progressing on a planned 12-story hotel at 61-27 186th Street. The FMTA has no further information at this time.
Continue reading →UPDATE: Apparently, the “authorities” investigated and discovered that some permits were not in order for the proposed hotel site. Construction was also halted, the FMTA is told, because of fears the the west shopping center parking lot would “cave in” … Continue reading →