Davis Square Hotel - update

[pbockelman.livejournal.com]

Somerville Patch has a good summary of the proposals for a hotel in Davis Square (where the farmer's market is now) here: http://somerville.patch.com/articles/davis-square-hotel-what-developers-have-proposed.

Also, you can go to the City's website to see much of the submitted material here: http://www.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/economic-development/davis-square-hotel-project

Other information can be found at an independent website created by a neighbor: http://herberthotel.net/

Comments

[ron_newman]

You may be right -- I did not pay close attention to that issue.

A lot of folks from the UNITE HERE hotel workers' union attended last week's community meeting. They want the city to ensure that whatever hotel developer is selected will employ a unionized workforce.

The Saracen proposal is for a 6-story, 60-foot high building. The current Davis Square central business district zoning allows only a 4-story, 50-foot buildling. The other three proposals appear to conform to that height limit.

[courtney o'keefe (from livejournal.com)]

Gate Residential and KSS Realty were picketed by Unions when demolition and initial construction began. I believe, they did use Bent Electric which is both local and Union (Local 103, IBEW). I don't know if other Union labor was used.