Does Fort Greene Need a Hotel?

With at Lafayette Ave. and St. Felix Street mostly dismantled, plans for the boutique hotel long slated to replace it seemed to have moved forward.

As a post in The Local New York Times blog noted, the project's 56 rooms would be located not only across the street from the BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building, but near Mark Morris Dance Center, and, of course, .

But does Fort Greene need a hotel—or for that matter, a glass paneled model across from the Opera House's Renaissance facade?