Plan for Farmingdale Hilton Hotel nearly dead
Photo credit: Bartone Properties | A rendering of a hotel planned in Farmingdale.
An 85-room Hilton hotel planned in downtown Farmingdale that advocates called the "linchpin" of ambitious revitalization efforts has been all but scrapped, village officials and the local developer said.
Finding lenders to back the hotel "is where we hit stumbling blocks," Farmingdale-based developer Anthony Bartone said Tuesday.
"We're going to potentially abandon the hotel concept,...