(a) Opening in 2022, the 35-story, LEED Gold $400 million project will be the first mixed-use property in North America for Raffles Hotels & Resorts, a world-renowned and iconic hospitality brand that continues to grow......Raffles Boston joins Raffles’ prestigious collection of 16 individually unique and timeless properties calling many of the world’s most fascinating cities and vibrant destinations home, from Singapore to Paris, Bali to Phnom Penh, and Dubai to the Maldives. Fourteen Raffles properties, including Boston, are currently under development......
(b) 16 gathering spaces include six food and beverage venues, a two-story Sky Lobby perched high above Copley Square, a state-of-the-art Raffles Spa, a 20-meter indoor pool and fitness center, a magnificent rooftop garden terrace lounge, a variety of intimate residents-only gathering places, and a dramatic ballroom with expansive views over the Charles River, all alongside its 147 guestrooms and 146 residences....
(c) .....joint venture between Trinity Stuart LLC – a partnership between two Boston entities: developer Jordan Warshaw’s The Noannet Group and hotelier Gary Saunders’ Saunders Hotel Group – alongside Cain International, the privately held investment firm led by Jonathan Goldstein. Accor, the Paris-based parent of Raffles Hotels & Resorts, is the hotel management partner, and Madison Realty Capital is providing construction financing.
(d) the air rights over the adjoining University Club, allowing it to soar to 35 stories through the use of a cantilever structure designed by Boston-based structural engineers McNamara Salvia. Boston-based architectural firm, The Architectural Team, Inc. (TAT) spearheaded Raffles Boston’s dramatic exterior, transforming its relatively narrow urban footprint through sheer engineering ingenuity.
[from] Fall, 2019 groundbreaking, construction focused on demolition and below ground work for over a year. ......Last month, 1,428 cubic yards of concrete was placed for Raffles Boston’s seven-foot thick mat slab, which equates to 6 million pounds of concrete and 13 miles of rebar. Prior to pouring the mat slab, a dense field of six-foot wide caissons was drilled approximately 150 feet into bedrock, following which 1.5 million pounds of steel plate girders, fabricated from three-inch thick steel plate, tied the grid of caissons together. The concrete structural core and columns that form the building’s aboveground structure rest on this concrete mat slab.
The Tower Crane, active as of today, sits on the corner of Stuart Street and Trinity Place, and is 150-feet tall. It will climb up to 512 feet as the building tops out. Working on two shifts, the Tower Crane focuses on the concrete core structure during the first shift, and erecting the first six floors of steel on its swing shift. Once Raffles Boston reaches the seventh floor, the Tower Crane will revert back to work on the building’s concrete core and superstructure until the project’s topping out. The team of trade partners on the project site, managed by Suffolk, will soon expand to 80 ironworkers, carpenters, operating engineers, laborers, electricians, plumbers and other mechanical trades.
Next month, Raffles Boston will celebrate another exciting construction and design milestone: as the structure reaches the 4th floor, a 30-foot cantilever will gracefully curve out and over its 100-foot neighbor, the University Club, before climbing another 340 feet into the sky.
(e) Raffles Boston will provide over $22 million in public benefits in total, including street and public realm improvements, seven on-site affordable housing units and a contribution of over $13 million that will support additional affordable housing in Boston.
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