A motel in East Hampton that once served as a de facto affordable housing complex is being transformed into a boutique hotel that is charging up to $907 for one night’s stay.

For the past few months, construction crews have been hard at work at 490 Pantigo Road, the site of the former Inn at East Hampton, a long, two-story structure that sits perpendicular to the highway and features a row of 11 guest rooms on each floor. As recently as 2016, the inn — which had been owned by Alex Demetriades — was renting the rooms unfurnished, for as little as $1,300 a month, to local workers, mostly Latino, who were unable to find an affordable home, apartment, or even a room in a shared house. 

In a June 2016 article in The Star about residential life at the Inn at East Hampton, a few of its inhabitants discussed the bare-bones living conditions. Since most of the rooms lacked cooking facilities, many used electric hot plates and rice cookers to prepare meals. Small refrigerators were purchased to store food. Dishes were washed in the bathroom sink or the bathtub. 

In 2015, the East Hampton Town fire marshal’s office received a complaint of overcrowding at the inn. Although that charge proved to be unfounded, officials did uncover 61 violations of the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Code. The fire marshal issued a statement saying that such violations created “serious life-safety hazards and fire hazards, all in violation of the code.”

The property has since been bought by Bridgeton Holdings, a Manhattan real estate development company that owns a portfolio of hotels and residential and commercial buildings in cities nationwide, including New York, San Francisco, and Boston.

Philip Cham, the company’s director of hospitality, said that he was vaguely familiar with the building’s checkered history, but added that “we’re not worried about the past, we’re looking to the future.”

The future, as the new owners have envisioned it, includes turning the Inn at East Hampton into Journey East Hampton, a hotel offering rooms with flat-screen TVs, mini-fridges, luxury amenities, access to an outdoor swimming pool, and free continental breakfast. Eventually, the hotel will also have three guest cottages available on its neighboring property at 492 Pantigo Road.

According to Mr. Cham, Journey East Hampton passed its certificate of occupancy inspection on Friday, and the hotel’s opening day will be next Thursday.

From cobalt blue to red to deep pewter, the colorful shoes passers-by will see in the window of Sabah, a small shopfront on Main Street in Amagansett next to Tack Trunk, are back this summer, still as a pop-up enterprise, but one that will be there for longer than last year, until Labor Day.

Sabah means morning in both Turkish and Arabic.

Mickey Ashmore, who worked in finance strategy for Microsoft in Istanbul for two years and then in finance in Manhattan, in February celebrated Sabah’s newly renovated four-story workshop in Gaziantep in southeast Turkey, once a transit city for ISIS and a Silk Road town that is home to a million Syrian refugees, five of whom went through a training program to become stitchers at the workshop. The program is also open to women, and three Syrian women are being trained.

As a result of Mr. Ashmore’s redesign of a traditional slipper, there are now 30 men stitching 3,000 pairs of shoes a month. The business started with five stitchers working for the family who owned the workshop and who had been making curly-toed Turkish slippers since 1887.

They work with 10 to 15 tanneries, buying pre-tanned and pre-dyed sheets of leather that are ready to be made into shoes. Once they are cut and stitched, which takes about three hours, the damp leather has to be fitted in a mold or on a last and allowed to set for 24 hours. Child-size shoes have been added to the offerings, as have slip-ons, and all have rubber soles that can be replaced once they wear out. 

Sabah shops can also be found in the East Village, Dallas, which is Mr. Ashmore’s hometown, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., Venice Beach, Calif., and even in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.

Goop Does Sag

After popping up in Amagansett last summer, Goop, the lifestyle brand founded by the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, opened an outpost at 4 Bay Street in Sag Harbor last weekend.

The store, which sells fashion, beauty, home, wellness, and specialty goods, has been conceived as a summer spot stocked with merchandise curated for a Hamptons clientele. It also features an outdoor space where dinners and parties will be held throughout the summer. Among the fashion offerings are Prada shoes and handbags, Saks Fifth Avenue clothing, and Goop’s own apparel line, G. Label. The home collection includes vintage furniture, marble accessories from Caravan, and designer seagrass baskets. 

The store is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Sept. 3.

AMAGANSETT

D.F.P. Inc. (by referee) to Richardson Court L.L.C., 519 Montauk Highway, .64 acre (vacant), March 23, $812,000.

T. and H. Field to Town of East Hampton, 263 Main Street and lot 9.007 (vacant), Dec. 28, $1,125,000.

M. Jonas Trust to Fisher Family L.L.C., 120 Hand Lane, 1 acre, March 22, $5,875,000.

159 Atlantic L.L.C. to SFAM Atlantic L.L.C., 159 Atlantic Avenue, .3 acre, April 3, $7,950,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

E. Otero to E. Todd, 1295 Sagg Road, .75 acre, March 30, $725,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

L. Kuplins to S. Taylor, 3 Deer Lane, .8 acre, March 28, $975,000.

R. Schwartz and Garson to S. Gordon and L. Pickholtz, 55 Ely Brook Road, 1.4 acres, March 26, $1,200,000.

Ash Family Trust to Stone and Feather, 21 Two Holes of Water Road, 2.2 acres, March 30, $995,000.

P. and S. Vaccari to Thiry and Buchner-Thiry, 5 Rose Hill Road, 1.1 acres, March 22, $890,000.

HCDC Realty Corp to Solano, Burneo, and Groga, 346 Three Mile Harbor Road, .42 acre, Aug. 3, $615,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

H. Phillips Trust to 7CHF L.L.C., 7 Cove Hollow Farm Road, 2.82 acres (vacant), April 13, $6,000,000.

H. Phillips Trust to JD3 L.L.C., 3 Cove Hollow Farm Road, 2.84 acres, April 13, $6,000,000.

West End Lot 4 L.L.C. to 24 West End Road, 24 West End Avenue, 1.54 acres (vacant), March 26, $17,200,000.

West End Lot 5 L.L.C. to 20 West End Road, 20 West End Avenue, 1.18 acres, March 26, $6,800,000.

MONTAUK

T. and P. Lupinacci to D. and M. Chakraborty, 120 Soundview Drive, .81 acre, March 29, $2,350,000.

G. and C. Kadlec to C. Forsberg, 287 Flamingo Avenue, .19 acre, March 25, $645,000.

E. Dabbene (by referee) to Rough Riders Landing, 23 Fort Pond Road, Unit 30, March 28, $368,581.

Rough Riders Landing to L. Arcara, 23 Fort Pond Road, Unit 30, March 23, $530,000.

R. and R. O’Connell to M. and K. Miller, 78 Benson Drive, .17 acre, March 26, $920,000.

NORTH HAVEN

Insource EastProprts to Schwartz, D., and Bertolini, 9 Tyndall Road, .46 acre, March 30, $910,000.

NOYAC

M. Grupa (by referee) to Deutsche Bank National Association, 2766 Noyac Road, 1.16 acres, Feb. 2, $2,692,067

J. Bucchino to D. Fallarino, 16 Breezy Drive, .48 acre, April 2, $965,000.

SAG HARBOR

Mongiello, Stanco, and Hol to Heirloom Partners L.L.C., 71 Franklin Avenue, .15 acre, April 17, $885,000.

T. Cooper to J. and C. Smith, 209 Division Street, .09 acre, March 28, $1,650,000.

Myasha, Gollum, and Mag to Happy On Main L.L.C., 16 Main Street, .26 acre, March 15, $6,100,000.

H. Choi to S. Neyland, 15 Church Street, Unit G-114, March 14, $1,175,000.

SPRINGS

J. and J. Giardina to 248 KPR L.L.C., 248 King’s Point Road, .46 acre, March 29, $1,550,000.

D. Malone to P. Rabito, 10 Wildflower Road, 1.01 acres, March 29, $762,500.

Citimortgage Inc. to P. and A. Whitney, 29 15th Street, .28 acre, March 29, $490,000.

R. and C. Mellor to V. and S. Befekadu, 140 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, 2.2 acres, March 14, $945,000.

J. McAlinden Trusts to D. and E. Parker, 20 Red Dirt Road, 1.17 acres, March 16, $1,175,000.

WATER MILL

Kidd Construction Co. to M. and C. Racioppi, 211 Roses Grove Road, 2.2 acres, March 14, $3,750,000.

H. Zobel to 42 Tony Tiska’s L.L.C., 42 Tony Tiska’s Path, 1.1 acres, Sept. 15, $2,521,500.

RCF Properties L.L.C. to Seven Ponds Road, 426 Seven Ponds Towd Road, .97 acre (vacant), April 20, $2,000,000.

Bay Lane Realty L.L.C. to P. Amster, 39 Bay Lane, .92 acre, April 3, $5,500,000. 

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

The Spur, a recently opened co-working and entrepreneurial space in Southampton, is a sort of a microenvironment that for a monthly fee offers an attractive work-life balance to a cohort of ambitious remote workers suffering from cabin fever.

In Brooklyn and Manhattan, the collaborative workspace phenomenon is almost at saturation point. WeWork, the most ubiquitous of them, has been likened to the Starbucks of co-workspaces, with 90 locations worldwide. 

But here on the South Fork, Starbucks is the WeWork of virtual offices for freelancers and entrepreneurs, other than a home desk or sometimes the library.

Ashley Heather, a British transplant who lived with his wife in Manhattan and moved to Water Mill three years ago with their three children, decided this area needed an inspiring co-working space, having done his time as a digital nomad, working from home or in Starbucks.

To be perfectly clear, Mr. Heather is not exactly your average start-up guy toiling away in a coffee shop. He said he’s been an entrepreneur as far back as he can remember, and as such, a problem solver. He solved some of life’s irksome little problems in the early 2000s, like how to identify a song you might hear at the gym or in a taxi, developing what became the Shazam app, which can identify music, movies, advertising, and television shows based on a short sample. Later he launched a lesser-known fashion app that could identify clothing and accessories worn by television stars and offer a link to websites where the outfits could be bought. 

He is also the founder of a bricks-and-mortar concern in Chelsea, the White Space Group, which, according to its website, works with “new and established brands who are looking to accelerate growth of their business, primarily in the digital domain.”

After moving to Water Mill, Mr. Heather founded iHamptons, a nonprofit organization that bills itself as “the hub of entrepreneurs in the Hamptons . . . bringing together all the resources needed to launch and build an innovative company.” The organization produces an annual event called “Riptide: $ink or $wim,” the Hamptons’ first start-up pitch competition open to entrepreneurs or innovators who pitch their start-up ideas to a group of judges for a chance to win up to $25,000. The company’s tagline is “Innovation’s a beach.”

Innovation is also a buzzword at the Spur, which Mr. Heather launched in January. A neon sign greets visitors: “By innovation only” — a wordplay that captures both the club’s membership-only essence as well as the requisite esprit of those clamoring to get in. 

“We’ve turned down many applicants,” Mr. Heather said over lunch, which is complimentary, at the Spur this week. “They’ve got to be a core fit,” he said, meaning that the initial 150 members they hope to sign up should represent freelance techie-types from industries such as media, technology, food and hospitality, and fashion and beauty. No one looking to simply network in the hopes of expanding his or her contact list will be allowed, he said. 

For the moment, the Spur is housed in an 1884 former potato and grain barn and weigh station that sits on a tiny parcel adjacent to the Southampton train station. Billy Joel once stored his pianos there. When a train rumbles past and the building shakes, one can almost imagine it’s Williamsburg, with the rattling subway below. 

The Brooklyn hipster vibe is reflected in the effortlessly eclectic furniture, the majority of which Mr. Heather said he found in local estate sales. The exposed brick walls, hand-hewn pine floors and beams, and a monthly rotation of featured artists make for a rather more attractive and inspirational alternative to Starbucks or the clutter of a kitchen table. The building’s original antique freight elevator is still operational and will soon transport members to the basement, where Lymbr, a health and wellness company that promotes a healthier quality of life through guided stretching, will operate.

In return for this, as well as free-flowing fruit-infused water, herbal teas, breakfast, lunch, a conference table that doubles as a Ping-Pong surface, and fun networking events, members pay a sliding monthly subscription, ranging from about $200 to $500 for year-round residents, depending on their needs for fixed desks or flex desks. There are also summer-only packages. As a bonus, two Tesla cars are available for pickups and drop-offs.

On Tuesday, a handful of members occupied communal tables and private booth spaces designed for the Spur by California Closets.

Casey Powers, an East Hampton mother of two young children, who once worked at Goldman Sachs, joined the Spur two weeks ago to get away from her home office and the Starbucks environment. She is developing two mother-and-baby-centric product lines and hopes to be more productive in the four to five hours a day she aims to spend working at one of the Spur’s tables.

Isolation is a major problem for the self-employed, and Ms. Powers echoed this. “A little socialization among like-minded entrepreneurial people is a good thing,” she said. 

Mickey Beyer-Clausen is the founder of an app called Mental Workout, which promises to increase performance through mental health. Mr. Beyer-Clausen, who is Danish but has lived in Southampton for 10 years, has introduced a number of successful apps, including one with Virgin Atlantic to help with the fear of flying. He opted for a private, designated desk at the Spur, where he is now designing an app that focuses on improving the well-being of the corporate work force.

Also busy at work was Scott Lewis, a financial-tech entrepreneur at present creating a crypto wallet in conjunction with the Shinnecock Indian Nation. He hopes to unveil it on June 14 at the U.S. Open golf tournament at Shinnecock Hills.

The Spur’s utopian ambition will be fully realized when the company moves this fall to a permanent 10,000-square-foot space in a defunct car dealership at the corner of Montauk Highway and Flying Point Road in Southampton.

Membership capacity will increase to 500, and there will be multiple conference rooms, a restaurant, and a bar. The social events calendar will expand, as will the currently offered tech-focused program for young kids designed by Greg Wilson, the director of the Ross School’s Innovation Lab initiative. The Lymbr fitness facility will follow, as will the Teslas.

Given the growing phenomenon of co-working spaces and the changing nature of today’s work force, Mr. Heather, together with Gary Bierfriend, who three months ago became the president of the company, plans to open hubs in Montauk, East Hampton, and Greenport. They will be modeled to resemble a hybrid of the WeWork archetype and the exclusive Soho House members’ club for people in the creative industries. The goal is for the company to open 20 such clubs in premium resort areas like the Hamptons in the next three years.

“I’m a serial connector,” Mr. Heather said with a smile. Surely then, following in WeWork’s footsteps, the next big lure promises to be co-living.

It doesn’t have to be that bedside Bible you drag out of the drawer in your hotel room in an effort to fall asleep.

Starting this weekend, and for four other weekends, Bedside Reading Hamptons will be giving away best-selling books at hotels and bed-and-breakfasts across the country and on the South Fork, including the Southampton Inn, the White Fences Inn in Water Mill, the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton, Baron’s Cove in Sag Harbor, and the Maidstone, the Mill House Inn, and the Baker House in East Hampton. And guests can keep the books when they leave.

A tote bag of six to eight books, with subject matter ranging from mysteries to lifestyle to self-development to business, will be waiting in each room at the establishments above. Among the novels, you might even call them beach reads, are “Love and Ruin” by Paula McLain, “Before I Let You Go” by Kelly Rimmer, “By Invitation Only” by Dorothea Benton Frank, “Lighthouse Beach” by Shelley Noble, “The Lying Game” by Ruth Ware, “The Secret to Southern Charm” by Kristy Woodson Harvey, “How to Walk Away” by Katherine Center, “The Cactus” by Sarah Haywood, and “The Endless Beach” by Jenny Colgan.

The other weekends when books will be placed in rooms are Flag Day in June, the Fourth of July, National Watermelon Day on Aug. 3, and Labor Day.

AMAGANSETT

DiBenedetto and Carlson to R. and R. Horler, 14 Scrimshaw Lane, 1.4 acres, April 3, $1,900,000.

EAST HAMPTON 

R. Witty to 388 Stephen Hands Path L.L.C., 388 Stephen Hand’s Path, 3.65 acres, March 19, $850,000.

Hands Creek EH2 L.L.C. to 186 Hand’s Creek Road, 186 Hand’s Creek Road, 3.75 acres, March 19, $3,900,000.

A. Vafai and trust to P. and P. Patel, 707 Hand’s Creek Road, 1.6 acres, March 29, $1,050,000.

East Islip L.L.C. to 4 Indian Hill Road, 3 Three Mile Harbor Road, .31 acre, March 30, $420,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

M. Minkoff to 11 Jones Cove Road, 11 Jones Cove Road, 2 acres, March 29, $6,000,000.

MONTAUK

P. Von Der Ahe to Departures by duBusc, 5 Gannet Drive, .17 acre, March 6, $1,300,000.

Duryea Homes L.L.C. to K. Encarnacion, 101 Mulford Avenue, .26 acre, March 26, $475,000.

P. Loris and A. Narizzano to Stonefire Sunset L.L.C., 54 Firestone Road, .68 acre, March 20, $1,805,000.

Graham and Fischer to B. Wallace and J. Delaney, 82 Fleming Road, .35 acre, Oct. 6, $1,861,000.

M. and M. Ryan (by executor) to A. Walker, 100 Deforest Road, Unit 207, March 27, $637,500.

Ryan, Woods, and Hines Trust to E. Corridore, 55 South Euclid Avenue, Unit 5A, March 22, $498,000.

SAG HARBOR

S. Mesnick and J. Yarnoff to S. Hendrickson, 173 Bay Street, .55 acre, March 15, $4,350,000.

A. Van Couvering to M. Boudreau and L. Alcon, 47 Grand Street, .11 acre, March 23, $580,000.

SPRINGS

T. White to J. and L. Allen, 120 Fort Pond Boulevard, .48 acre, March 21, $470,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

The owners of Gurney’s Montauk Resort and Seawater Spa have purchased the Montauk Yacht Club Resort and Marina and plan to spend approximately $13 million to upgrade the property, which they will rename Gurney’s Montauk Yacht Club and Resort. The amount of the sale was not disclosed.

In a press release issued on May 7, George Filopolous, the founder of Metrovest Equities and the president and co-owner of Gurney’s, said that he was looking forward to elevating the accommodations at the yacht club.

Since 2007, the yacht club — which features 107 guest rooms, meeting rooms, a ballroom, three restaurants, and 35 acres of marina and grounds — had been owned by an affiliate of Island Capital Group L.L.C., a real estate investment firm led by Andrew Farkas. “We have had the privilege of being associated with the Montauk Yacht Club for 11 years,” said Mr. Farkas, in a statement announcing the sale.

Mr. Filopolous and his business partner, Lloyd Goldman of BLDG Management, purchased Gurney’s in 2013. In 2015, they bought a neighboring property, the Panoramic View Resort, and transformed it into the Gurney’s Residences, a condominium development. They also opened a Gurney’s resort in Newport, R.I., last year. The duo plan to oversee the transition of the yacht club, which will close this winter to undergo propertywide renovations and reopen in time for the 2019 season.

Immediate upgrades planned for the resort include handing over the food and beverage service to LDV Hospitality, the firm that owns the Scarpetta restaurants and other high-end eateries. A Scarpetta outpost is also located at Gurney’s Resort on Old Montauk Highway.

The Commercial Observer reported on Thursday that the purchase was made possible by a $56 million loan from Acore Capital.

AMAGANSETT

Devon Colony II L.L.C. to Galaxy Group Investments, 58 Cross Highway East and lot 1-012, 5.18 acres (vacant), March 15, $3,000,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

P. Gennell to 2theShore L.L.C., 1246 Sagg Road, 1.46 acres, Oct. 30, $1,360,000.

North Barn Scuttle to C. DeCristofaro, 2098 Scuttlehole Road, 1.86 acres, March 9, $1,150,000.

C. Morley to J. McLoughlin, 11 Ludlow Green, .58 acre, April 2, $1,585,000.

EAST HAMPTON

B. Karp and S. Goldstone to T. Meshberg, 4 Old Hollow Lane, Feb. 15, $1,775,000.

East End Realty Development to 7 Sally’s Path L.L.C., 11 Timber Lane, 1.41 acres, Feb. 28, $995,000.

K. Flanigan to K. O’Connor, 55 Montauk Avenue, .54 acre, March 1, $1,045,500.

C. and A. Sullivan (by referee) to DNT Properties L.L.C., 35 Oak Hill Lane, 3.44 acres, March 1, $1,097,998.

C. Van Domelen to P. Lafferty and J. Salamon, 26 Oyster Shores Road, .6 acre, March 7, $1,825,000.

G. Taradash to W. and N. Taub, 8 Beechwood Court, 1.97 acres, March 26, $1,408,000.

H. Kieu and T. Nguyen to Keystone Realty NYC, 151 Three Mile Harbor Road, 1.27 acres, March 26, $895,000.

J. and S. Berger to D. Newton, 6 Stirrup Court, .76 acre, March 29, $1,290,000.

EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE

L. Adams to 19 Ruxton Road L.L.C., 33 Ruxton Road, 2.3 acres, March 8, $8,250,000.

71 Toilsome Lane L.L.C. to I. and N. Caronna, 71 Toilsome Lane, .6 acre, March 9, $4,500,000.

MONTAUK

H. Brodsky Trust to C. and P. Berrezueta, 90 Laurel Drive, .92 acre, March 1, $1,025,000.

SAG HARBOR

K. Gale to L. Maki, 29 Eastville Avenue,, .14 acre, March 2, $798,250.

W. and L. Hardie to B. Fish, 119 Bay Street, .17 acre, April 3, $2,975,000.

SAGAPONACK

I. and D. Simon to Aritara L.L.C., 116 Farm Court, 1 acre, March 7, $5,250,000.

SPRINGS

Giarrantano and Choi to P. Brennan and L. O’Rourke, 32 12th Street, .37 acre, Feb. 16, $890,000.

A. Zeidman to M. and N. Tiberia, 35 Gardiner’s Lane, .14 acre, March 9, $787,000.

WATER MILL

E. Mittman to B. Masri and A. Saliby, 1477 Deerfield Road, 4.56 acres, March 9, $2,925,000.

S. Sharf to C. and L. Teixeira, 10 Deer Run, .99 acre, March 12, $4,641,200.

M. Doyle (by executor) to Byrd Hoffman Property, 47 Water Mill Towd Road, 2.12 acres (vacant), March 12, $1,400,000.

K. and R. Lichtman to 68 Summerfield Lane L.L.C., 68 Summerfield Lane, .93 acre, March 26, $3,750,000.

Data provided by Suffolk Research Service of Southampton

Jimmy Choo, Too

A Jimmy Choo pop-up shop is taking over the space previously occupied by Gallery Valentine at 33 Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village. The designer shoe store will be open from Memorial Day weekend through mid-October.

E.H. Dental Group

The East Hampton Dental Group, of which David Mambrino and Ven Sampathkumar are lead dentists, has moved from the Circle in East Hampton Village to 300 Pantigo Place, Suite 114.