So, there's a presentation on
the Bloomfield Development Corporation's website which has renderings of the updated plans for the Hampton Inn on Penn Avenue near Children's Hospital. The new design by Indovina is an upgrade from what we've seen before, and changes the lobby so that it opens directly on Penn Avenue, which is appropriate for an urban neighborhood. In addition the latest
Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin reports the new plan adds three rooms (now 118) and seven parking spaces (now 67). I don't like that car access is off of Penn (meaning two curb cuts are retained), but I don't think car ingress/egress off the alley is feasible, and it's no more curb cuts than were already there.
The Bulletin has some other low-level development news as well, including renovations to a 16-unit apartment building on Penn Avenue, three infill module homes in Garfield, and the conversion of the B'Nai Israel Synagogue into a 45-unit apartment building.