Bronx —
There’s “No Vacancy” at this vacant lot: A new 80- to 90-room hotel is coming to the South Bronx.
“It’s going to create jobs,” said Sheetal Patel, a project manager for Jiten, the hotel operator, which hopes to break ground in early 2011. “It’s going to really help the neighborhood.”
The hotel site is an abandoned lot just off the Major Deegan Expressway at 135th St. and Third Ave. that is littered with debris and more than 30 barrels marked “non-hazardous waste.”
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