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Article: Hotel opens under pressure ; Back Bay's Mandarin Oriental may face financial challenges
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2008
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Developers had already spent nine years painstakingly designing
the posh $300 million Mandarin Oriental Boston complex when they
realized the hotel's front door was in the wrong place.
On the suggestion of a Chinese feng-shui master hired by Mandarin
Oriental Hotel Group to inspect the Back Bay hotel, retail, and
residential property, the luxury brand in 2004 moved the entrance 50
feet. Now, when the hotel opens tomorrow, there will be a clear view
down Fairfield Street toward the Charles River from the street-
level lobby.
That, said general manager Susanne Hatje, will bring "the good
fortune of running a business."
It appears not even the Mandarin's rainforest showers, mother-of-
pearl ...