A New York-based attorney is looking to renovate two historic buildings in the heart of Middletown into hotel space and a restaurant.
Peter Brill, of the Brill Hospitality Group Inc., and 11 SOMA LLC and 15 SOMA LLC, has an application into the Middletown Design Review Board and Planning and Zoning Commission for a special exception permit to create hotel space and a restaurant at 11 and 15 South Main St.
The 6,500-square-foot building at 11 South Main St. was most recently used as a medical office. The 15 South Main St. property is vacant and has less than 2,000 square feet of space.
Each building will undergo extensive renovations and additions, creating an 18-unit hotel at the Mather-Douglas House, to be known as “The Doug Hotel,” at 11 South Main St. The building dates back to 1830.
The 15 South Main property, built in 1700, will become a two-unit hotel with a bistro-style restaurant known as “The Pewter House @ The Doug.”
Both buildings are centrally located near downtown and the Wesleyan University campus.
The applications will go before the Design Review Board at 6 p.m. on July 10 followed by a Planning and Zoning Commission Public Hearing at 7 p.m.
