The Boston Sun reports that Jas Bhogal and Thomas Calus, owners of the former Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue, are readying a new redevelopment plan to turn it into a 68-room hotel - but without the modern steel and glass addition they once proposed plopping atop the current facade.
Bhgal and Calus, who bought the building from the Scientologists in 2018, won approval from the BPDA and zoning board in 2019 for a plan to completely gut the interior and swap in a 13-story, 156-room hotel tower clad with the historic building's facade. Covid-19 hit, the hotel market disappeared and they proposed putting in 70 condos instead. Then, last year, with hotel rooms in a tourist town once again in demand, they asked the BPDA to let them go back to their original 13-story hotel project.
Now, the Sun reports, they plan to stay within the confines of the existing facade, which they will fully restore, in large part due to a $6 million grant, included in a statewide economic-development bill, that Gov. Healey signed last November, to restore the facade.
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Tickle me once, shame on you.
By Jiggles
Fri, 03/14/2025 - 10:18am
Tickle me 6 times in 10 years, I think it’s fair to say I’m somewhat responsible for the tickling. What an absolute disaster that whole process has been.
Episodic development!
By BostonDog
Fri, 03/14/2025 - 10:29am
I'm already eager to see the next proposal, tentatively scheduled for early 2029.
$$$$
By Username Unknown
Fri, 03/14/2025 - 9:00pm
Imagine the amount of money that has been spent on new development plans for this property over the past 60 years??
Ah - I drove by there just
By Rob
Fri, 03/14/2025 - 12:30pm
Ah - I drove by there just Wednesday morning, and noticed some sort of worker at the front door! I was wondering.
6 million for more hotel rooms from the state?
By BikeBoston45
Fri, 03/14/2025 - 2:23pm
Thanks, Gov. Healey. No way that money could go toward making those be apartments for families coming out of homelessness instead? What a stellar location that would be--on the 1, on the Silver Line, a short walk to BMC, a short walk to the Orange Line, and maybe going a little way toward helping families not be sleeping on the streets.
Be Kind, Rewind
By Username Unknown
Fri, 03/14/2025 - 8:58pm
I swear I read a story about this property being redeveloped last year, and the year before and the year before and the year before and the year before...
It's the story that just keeps giving. Five years ago I said check back in five years. Mark your calendar to check back five years from today.
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