Marriott moving into Lynbrook?

Developer once again prepares plans for chain hotel

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After more than a decade of failed attempts, it appears that a new hotel may soon be built in Lynbrook, on the site of a municipal parking lot that has fallen into disrepair.

Lee Browning Sr., owner of Browning Hotel Ventures, met with members of the Lynbrook village board before their recent public meeting to discuss plans for his proposed six-story, 150-room hotel, a Courtyard by Marriott, which would be built at the corner of Broadway and Langdon Place. No artist’s renderings were provided by Browning’s office.

The hotel’s bottom three and a half floors would be a large parking garage, according to Browning and village officials. The structure would have just over 300 parking spots, with 96 earmarked for use by the hotel and its guests, and the remaining 210 set aside as municipal parking, allowing commuters who use the current lot to continue to park there. If the hotel, or another project, does not replace the parking lot, the village will have to spend about $340,000 to repair its cracks and potholes and resurface it.

The hotel rooms would be on the building’s top three floors. It would also feature a business center, a fitness center, meeting rooms and a banquet hall large enough for 275 people. A restaurant, known as the Bistro, which is featured in every Courtyard by Marriott, would serve breakfast.

Mayor William Hendrick said he would be glad to see the hotel come to the village. “It looks like this project is a go-ahead,” he told residents at the board meeting. “This would be a very good project for Lynbrook.”

Browning has been trying to build a hotel in the village for nearly a decade. In 2005, he informally proposed a larger development that would have included a Marriott; another hotel, a Hilton Homewood Suites; and three parking facilities in Lynbrook’s downtown. That plan was quickly scaled back to include only the Courtyard by Marriott and one parking structure on Earle Avenue — before being withdrawn in 2006 due to negative community reaction.

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