The goal of this Amendment to the NPC is to permit an increase to the size of the hotel’s guest rooms, to better accommodate visitor expectations in the current hospitality marketplace. This revision to the NPC Project will result in both a reduction in the hotel’s total room count and room density, and an increase in the building’s overall height and FAR to allow for more spacious rooms. These changes to the NPC Project are needed to allow a promising but challenging development site to become an
economically feasible hotel.
The specific changes now contemplated for Parcel P-7a, which are intended to modify the previously-submitted NPC, include the following:
1. A reduction in the number of hotel rooms proposed from 240 to 202.
2. The addition of two (2) additional floors of hotel rooms to the NPC Project, bringing the Proposed Project’s building height to twenty-one (21) stories and approximately 213 feet.
3. Changes to the layout of the NPC Project’s ground floor to accommodate revised lobby program and back-of-house requirements for a select-service hotel of this type.
4. Increase in Gross Floor Area to approximately 117,000 square feet from the previous 101,000 square feet, for a total Floor Area Ratio of approximately 20.1, based on a site area of approximately 5,810 square feet.
5. Adjustment in the floorplate dimension of the NPC Project, which will require a
discontinuance and/or conveyance of a narrow slab of air rights over the southerly
sidewalk of Stuart Street and easterly sidewalk of Tremont Street in order to provide for a viable hotel floorplate.
6. Consolidation and simplification of the digital media element to be more focused at the most prominent corner of the Proposed Project, Tremont and Stuart Streets.
7. Elimination of the rooftop bar.
8. Update to the required permits & approvals section of the NPC as will be necessary to
perfect entitlements for the Proposed Project.
