Former landmark hotel opens as luxury apartment building
COHOES, N.Y.» A historical landmark hotel in Cohoes is opening with a new look, following its transformation into a luxury apartment building.
Efforts to revive a vacant landmark in the heart of the Spindle City were unveiled on Tuesday at a grand opening event and ribbon cutting ceremony for Hotel Cohoes.
Brothers Paul and John Bonacquisti and partner Sean Curtin of 100N5 Development purchased the former Cohoes Hotel property at 134 Remsen St. in 2016, with plans to develop it into a residential building.
The partners, along with supporters, celebrated the completion of the project’s first phase at Wednesday’s unveiling event, when members of the community were invited to come check out the property on a site tour.
The historic rehabilitation kept all the original architectural features of the 7,700-square-foot building, which dates back to the 1870s.
The porch, building entrance, historic staircase and fireplaces are all part of the original building and were painstakingly restored during the adaptive reuse project, a press release from the city said.
Cohoes Hotel now houses six apartments, now available for lease, featuring a mix of old and new world craftsmanship.
“The Hotel Cohoes project is 100N5’s third downtown development since 2014,” Paul Bonacquisti said during the ceremony. “This historic renovation was our toughest Cohoes project to date.
“The building was in much worse shape than we had originally anticipated, and the importance of preserving the building’s architecture added to that challenge,” he continued, concluding that it was well worth the effort.
“Today the former Cohoes Hotel has been restored to its place of prominence on Remsen Street and has been reborn as new luxury apartments, and will anchor a 22-unit addition planned for 2019,” Bonacquisti said.
Looking forward, a new addition will be built in the rear of the property along Main Street as part of the project’s second phase, scheduled for next year. The historic building is the anchor to the larger part of the project, ant L-shaped addition that will connect to the rear of the building, and continue over to White Street, inviting more residents to live and work in the city’s core.
“This is a big day for downtown Cohoes,” Mayor Shawn Morse said at the grand opening event. Morse described how the 1870 structure “was one of the most gorgeous buildings at its time for the richest people who