Downtown may be getting a little too suite for travellers’ tastes! A 196-key Hilton just opened its doors on Smith and Schermerhorn streets — the fifth hotel to open in the area in the past two years, and the neighborhood could soon hit its capacity if the lodge-building frenzy doesn’t slow down, according to an expert. “I definitely think there’s a saturation of hotels,” said Colby Swartz, the managing director of hotel advisory firm Suzuki Capital. “I don’t know if [Brooklyn’s] the best locations for a new hotel site — yet alone a destination point to actually draw clientele.”

Between them, the new Hilton, Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn, Dazzler, and Even hotels have added 934 rooms to the area in the past two years, joining existing chain inns the Marriott, Hotel Indigo, Sheraton, Aloft, and, of course, the Brooklyn House of Detention-adjacent Nu Hotel. Read the full article here