![]() ![]() The mayor said the Marriott was “controversial,” but “has made a tremendous difference in the entire atmosphere of the village, putting people in beds right on the main street, where they can walk to the restaurants and the shops and beach.”Īs for possibly charging $1,000 a night, the mayor said, “Lake George Village has been known as a middle class town and a middle class resort. “Although Neptune’s was known for many years as having some of the best bands that we had in the village and that’s kind of been taken over by the Lake George Beach Club.” “I don’t think that the village necessarily would miss another nightclub,” he said. Quirk was applying for a variance, “which he would need to build closer to the lakefront walkway because there is a setback required from the walkway.” “And I can tell you that that’s about the third use now that I’ve heard. He said he wasn’t aware until we called of the Neptune hotel plan. I think anything that puts heads in beds in the village is a good thing,” Lake George Village Mayor Bob Blais said when The Chronicle called him for comment Tuesday. Mayor Blais likes idea of ‘a boutique hotel’Ĭhronicle Staffer Zander Frost writes: “I’d be in favor of a boutique hotel. But compared to 2019, it was right on target. Quirk said, “I’ve heard other people say the word soft. “I don’t wish it on my worst enemies.”Īsked how business was this summer, Mr. We’ve done it, we really enjoyed it, we are gonna miss it. He said closing Neptune’s - which formerly was a major live music venue in Lake George - “was a very difficult decision for my wife and I. That’s one of the reasons to get out of the bar business.” Quirk said, “I used to worry about noise and everything but it seems not as loud. I do have a year-round maintenance man.”Īs to the guest experience, Mr. When you’re ready, your phone will access your door.” If you come early, you could store your stuff and still walk around. It’s all automated, a phone connectivity thing. “We are looking at a self check-in, a machine. Two apartment suites - I’m gonna call them that - will be the dance floor divided in half.” Of the five rooms, “The one is down in the lower bar. Quirk said the construction to convert the bar to a hotel is “actually very minimal - framing in 11 bathrooms and five kitchens.” He said the project instead is “all mechanical” especially plumbing. “If we didn’t sell, I wanted a condominium.” “Looking to sell was the easy thing,” he said, which was their initial plan. ![]() He said the rooms will be “all glass, all windows, it will be nice.” The roof becomes the balcony for the two suites up in the dance floor area.” “That’s gonna be where the boat rental business will go from. The Quirks will need a variance “to be able to enclose that lower patio” right next to the walkway. ![]() Neptune is adjacent to the Village Walkway, right next to the lake. Andrew Allison at AJA in Glens Falls is the architect. I think we should have the four units going by June.” Jonathan Lapper of Bartlett Pontiff in Glens Falls is Mr. November would start the construction, or December. He said, “I’m hoping to get the approvals in October. We spent $25 every year to keep the permit for a hotel.” Quirk told The Chronicle that Neptune “was a hotel in the 1940s to the 1960s. The Albany Business Review first broke the story of the hotel plan on Tuesday morning. I have a friend who’s up the lake who gets $15,000 for six nights out of a house.” He said of a $1,000 a night price, “I think that’s low. “Then if they don’t have a boat, we’ll rent them a boat.” Quirk told The Chronicle Tuesday afternoon. “I feel that because it’s lakefront and offering the dockage with a slip, I think there’s gonna be a draw,” Mr. Sean Quirk intends to exit the bar business and turn King Neptune’s in Lake George Village into a five-room hotel that he hopes could charge upwards of $1,000 a night.
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