Back Bay’s newest luxury hotel delivers European flair while retaining a Boston accent reflected in its interior designs and dining offerings, its developers said at a grand opening ceremony earlier this week.
For four generations, Saunders Hotel Group has owned and operated properties that are on the short list of travelers visiting Boston. It gives Chairman Gary Saunders a useful position to gauge the future of Back Bay hotel market.
Back Bay’s newest high-end residential tower passes a construction milestone this week as Boston condo sales accelerate.
It might surprise people that as the developer of Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences, I shudder at the “L word,” but ask anyone from our team and they will confirm: “luxury” is all but forbidden in our marketing materials.
After a broad-based dip in Boston’s luxury condo market in 2020, developers of the Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences have a brighter post-pandemic outlook for sales of 146 condos at their 35-story tower.
Tucked between the former Hancock Tower and 100 Clarendon parking garage, the future home of the $400-million Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences has literally kept a low profile since site work began in mid-2019.
In a time of quarantine, downtowners become envious of those with backyards and uncrowded streets. And so, people ask, will the “new normal” include forsaking cities like Boston to move back to the ‘burbs?
A growing coalition of tourism officials is seeking to create a new dedicated source of revenues, and the power to spend them on ad campaigns and promotions.
The immediate past chair of the Massachusetts Lodging Association board of directors, Dan Donahue is president of Saunders Hotel Group, giving him a front-line view of how the crisis is changing the hospitality industry.
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.
Cain International is partnering with the local developers behind the $400 million Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences, which will replace the former Boston Common Hotel and Conference Center at 40 Trinity Place.
My brother Gary and I literally grew up in the hotel business. Well before we were born, our grandfather Irving Saunders – an astute, affable guy with no hotel experience – became the owner of the Copley Square Hotel in the heart of the Back Bay.
Developers of a 33-story hotel and condominium tower in Back Bay have signed an agreement with Paris-based AccorHotels’ Raffles Hotels & Resorts brand for its first North American project.
