According to The Villager: “A row of shuttered stores and bars on Orchard St. south of Houston St. is apparently the site of a new hotel in the works for the block. It’s reported construction will soon begin on an 18-to-22-story “boutique” hotel with 70 hotel rooms, 25 condo-hotel units and nine luxury apartments selling for $750,000 to several million dollars. The developers are Thompson Hotels, owners of 60 Thompson in Soho, with principals Jason, Michael and Lawrence Pomeranc.”

And I’m still wondering what it is they are investigating beneath the Park Fast parking lot. Houston Street between Essex and Ludlow. Earlier in the GammaBlaBlog.