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Article: RENEWING KENMORE HOTEL'S BLEND OF TECH, TRADITION SEEN HELPING TO REVITALIZE SQUARE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 3, 2003
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When the new Hotel Commonwealth opens in Kenmore Square in two
months, it will live in two worlds.
Its semi-ornate French Second Empire architecture will recall a
rich era when stately hotels shared space with residences along the
outer reaches of Boston's Commonwealth Avenue.
But its extensive internal network of communications gear,
providing wireless Web access to guests anywhere within the six
floors - even under the awnings on the sidewalk bistro - will put it
on the edge of the future.
Besides embracing both tradition and change, says developer Frank
Keefe, a partner with Great Bays Holdings and a former Massachusetts
secretary of administration and finance, Hotel Commonwealth will ...