Dutch Hotel and CarGurus to Anchor Back Bay Air Rights Project
A Cambridge-based online automotive marketplace and Dutch pod-style hotel chain will anchor a high-profile Massachusetts Turnpike air rights development.
A Cambridge-based online automotive marketplace and Dutch pod-style hotel chain will anchor a high-profile Massachusetts Turnpike air rights development.
Work on a high-end hotel planned for a 1.1-acre site halfway between Porter and Union Squares looks set to begin after the project landed construction financing.
Back Bay’s latest luxury tower began construction – or, rather, demolition – yesterday, with a ceremony at 40 Trinity Place in Boston, the current site of the former Boston Common Hotel and Conference Center.
The $400 million, 33-story Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences, set to begin construction this summer, soared upward in size and market niche during seven years of permitting and predevelopment. This is the saga of its tricky path to groundbreaking.