Long Beach Hotel Opens Its Doors

There’s a new lodge in Long Beach.  

The Long Beach Hotel opened Thursday at the former site of the Jackson Hotel, at 405 E. Broadway. Seventh-five rooms and a full service bar were made available on Wednesday, and a grand opening is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, Jackie Salorio, sales and event manager at the hotel, told Patch on Friday.

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The plan is to open a total of 136 rooms and a full-service restaurant and bar, the latter of which is partially outdoors. There will also be a lounge and banquet space for events, including bar mitzvahs, weddings and seminars.

“We can break down the room if people need to do a small meeting or need a boardroom and events like that,” Salorio said. “We can have corporate menus and social menus. So we’re really full service.”

Room rates are between $149 and $199 a night, depending on the season, occupancy and demand.

“We plan to be a very Long Beach-friendly, surfer-friendly and family-friendly and affordable destination,” Salorio said.   Asked about the potential for a nightclub at the site, she said one is in the works. “We have to see what the demands are, because we have the space,” she said.  

Salorio noted that the hotel is open to community members and hearing their ideas. “We want to try to make everyone happy and we want to have a fun place for everyone to come,” she said.

The Jackson, a 60,000-square-foot hotel that was built during the 1920’s, was on the market for five years when David Kadosh of 405 Hotel LLC purchased the building for $5.2 million in July 2012. Kadosh is a former dentist who lives in Lawrence. 

Over the past decade there were unsuccessful attempts to either convert the hotel to condominiums or demolish and replace it with condos, and the building was used briefly to house homeless families through funding from the Nassau County Department of Social Services before the city cited the hotel with violations for improper use.