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Article: Hip to be (Kenmore) Square?(Business)
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- The Boston Herald
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- August 26, 2004
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Byline: SCOTT VAN VOORHIS
Longtime Hub hotelier Tim Kirwan says he has a vision of Kenmore Square someday becoming one of Boston's glories.
His financial district friends swear he's seeing things.
Why would anyone build a luxury hotel in the city's club-happy party center, his friends chide Kirwan, managing director of Kenmore Square's newly minted Hotel Commonwealth.
But the veteran of Boston's hotel business has an answer for his skeptics. The 150-room, European-style hotel, which replaced a pancake house and a stretch of condemned buildings, is the advance guard of a redevelopment wave that will remake Kenmore Square beyond ...