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Image courtesy of RODE Architects
A development team including Brookline-based City Realty proposes a boutique hotel in a conversion of a 19th-century office building steps from Boston’s Orpheum Theater.
The 4-story sandstone- and brick-facade building sits on a 5,221-square-foot parcel at 7-9 Hamilton Place, and was completed in the 1870s. Developers acquired the property last May for $7.9 million.
City Realty, CRM Property Group and Alex Hamilton Realty Trust are seeking approval for an 80-room hotel. Plans by RODE Architects would retain the facade on the three lower floors, but carve out space behind it on one side for a cafe courtyard. A new 12-story building totaling 38,400 square feet would then rise above the older structure.
The hotel, including a ground-floor cafe, would generate more visitor activity to the dead-end street when the Orpheum is dormant, developers said.
At a height of 125 feet, the building conforms to the existing zoning as-of-right, developers said in a small project filing with the Boston Planning & Development Agency. Developers estimate an 18-to-24-month construction period.
