Article: The lure of the luxurious Investors buy a controlling interest in Mandarin project

Developers of Boston's Mandarin Oriental hotel have sold a controlling interest in the ultra-swanky new address on Boylston Street to an international consortium of investors represented by Anglo Irish Bank Corp., a person involved in the transaction said.

Robin Brown and Stephen R. Weiner sold the interest in the 148- room hotel, accompanying restaurant and retail space, and 35 rental apartments on Oct. 6, the same day the Mandarin Oriental complex officially opened for business.

Fifty Mandarin Oriental condominiums, purchased by individual owners for prices ranging from $2 million to $14 million, were not part of the transaction.

Brown said he and Weiner continue to own a "substantial and ...

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