Stamford’s Zoning Board on Monday night unanimously approved a plan by a prominent developer to add 52 more rooms to a 94-room hotel that it owns in the city’s downtown area. The four-member board approved the plan with conditions that included requiring 71 valet parking spaces, 23 spaces for bicycles and a 24-hour valet station. […]
Stamford’s Zoning Board on Monday night unanimously approved a plan by a prominent developer to add 52 more rooms to a 94-room hotel that it owns in the city’s downtown area.
The four-member board approved the plan with conditions that included requiring 71 valet parking spaces, 23 spaces for bicycles and a 24-hour valet station.
Stamford-based RMS Cos. had proposed expanding the boutique LLoyd Hotel into the remaining portion of a roughly 86,000-square-foot building that once housed the former Stamford Family YMCA.
In 2008, the developer paid $4.65 million for an eight-story, 43,635-square-foot portion of the building, at 909 Washington Blvd., that the YMCA ran as a 97-room hotel since 1974, according to property records.
RMS refurbished the space into a 94-room Hotel Zero Degrees, which debuted in 2009 and operated until the end of 2019. RMS refurbished the hotel and rebranded it The Lloyd, which debuted in August 2020.
In April, RMS bought the remaining two-story, 42,653 square feet from the Stamford Family YMCA for $3 million to make room for the hotel expansion. The YMCA was founded in 1868, but closed in March 2024.
The hotel expansion will also include a restaurant, 4,500 square feet of meeting space and an outdoor courtyard.
RMS owns 35 hotels and residential properties in Fairfield County and the New Haven and Hartford areas. It is constructing
a 280-unit apartment building on the former site of a Burlington Coat Factory in downtown Stamford.
