Building a Concensus
The Golden Gate Motor Inn in Sheepshead Bay has gone where all financial sinkholes on valuable Brooklyn property go: death row. And the motel’s new owner may have plans to demolish the building in favor of a more lucrative business, but not without community input first.
Harshad “Nick” Patel of the development company Krishna Management LLC and the owner of the Golden Gate, asked Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz to call an informal meeting for Feb. 5, ostensibly to take suggestions from the community. Local groups invited to the meeting included Community Board 15, the Sheepshead Bay/Plum Beach Civic Association and the Bay Improvement Group. Patel, however, did not attend.
The newly renovated Golden Gate Motor Inn on Knapp St. in Sheepshead Bay.