W Hotel | 100 Stuart St | Theater District

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kennedy said:
Welcome, and yes-I too agree with Suffolk's observation. From the above angle-it's nothing-just an "artless box." But from the street, at least from the pictures I have seen, it looks very impressive and may just be the jumpstart needed for the Theater District.
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Exactly. While it isn't anything earth-shattering or new, it's a good start towards what will hopefully be the start towards making the Theater District better.
 
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Hellooo.

I'm trying to find details on the amount of linkage funds the W Hotel & Residences was required to put up as part of the project. Also, what the situation is with the condos - did the developer build affordable units onsite or contribute to the city's affordable housing fund, instead.

The BRA's website doesn't seem to be much help; I only found one mention of a $1.6 million contribution.

Thanks!
 
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today from mt aburn camb. better up close looks like another box on the skyline!
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Chinatown eyes W jobs
Residents seek priority at new hotel
By Thomas Grillo
Tuesday, March 31, 2009


Chinatown residents packed a community center yesterday demanding that the new W Hotel hire locally.

?We ask that the W Hotel give us priority when it comes to job opportunities,? said Henry Yee, co-chair of the Chinese Residents Association. ?This neighborhood can provide all the qualified workers you need.?

In passionate remarks, residents called upon the W to establish hiring goals for the neighborhood, provide equal consideration to qualified applicants with limited English skills, accept paper and online applications and guarantee that job seekers will not be charged a fee to apply for work.

Lydia Lowe, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association, a grassroots community group, organized the rally after getting no response from W Hotel management.

William Bunce, the hotel?s general manager, surprised the activists by attending the session at the Metropolitan Community Room.

He said the W?s agreement with the city requires a goal of at least 50 percent of the hires be from Boston. He said that a three-day job fair will be held at the Franklin Institute on Berkeley Street in May, and a Chinatown hiring office will follow.

But he did not provide a percentage of Chinatown residents that would get hired.

?My first priority is to reach out to Chinatown,? Bunce said. ?We are hoping the applicants come from this community. But I can?t specify how many people we will hire from Chinatown.?

The W Hotel, under construction on Stuart Street, needs about 300 workers.


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Jesus-tapdancing-Christ, who the fuck owes you anything?! You "demand" they give you jobs?
 
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The city already demanded they be Boston jobs, so the principle is roughly the same.

Asking that people who can't speak English get equal treatment in the hospitality industry is a bit of a stretch though. I hope they don't mean for every job.
 
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Entitlement by geography and ethnicity.
 
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Whatever happened to being an "equal opportunity employer"?

Yes sir, thank you for your interest and you're resume looks fantastic and is just what we are looking for besides one small item. It says here you live in Quincy, and well we just don't take kindly to the likes of you around here.

It's caused avalanches on me before, but this just smacks of past it's time Affirmative Action BS that needs to be over and done with.

If you have the skills and the know how, then you have even footing with all other applicants who do as well. If you have less skills, but live closer. F you. Learn, or start at a lower position or lesser hotel (Radisson obviously right next door), and gain the skills needed. This we live right here and deserve these jobs.... blah I could rant for longer (and already have) than anyone cares to hear.

Everyone needs jobs right now. Get over your entitlement and sense of self importance. Do for yourself.
 
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It's not going to happen. Doing so will mean that it will violate the "Equal opportunity employment" law and thus be discriminating.
 
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Lydia Lowe is obnoxious and entitled. She's the Jimmy Kelly of Chinatown. This certainly does make an interesting test case. Southie pols have tried this stuff for decades. And they have mostly lost those battles in recent years while being properly derided as insular hacks. The same should hold true here...
 
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The more people they hire from the immediate neighborhood, the fewer employees have to drive to the hotel or park there. Sounds like a win to me.
 
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I'm not against hiring locally, I'm all for it, but they way they went about it was like a baby demanding candy from its baby sitter.
 
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Van has a point. The demand it pretty ridiculous.

Turning things around a little bit, though: Should it be considered discrimination for an employer to give preference to those who live closer to the place of employment? It certainly puts less stress on the system and helps assure employees will be at work on time.
 
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It's a slippery slope...as long as you don't mind the first 100 jobs at the convention center and all the associated hotels and restaurants reserved for Murph and Sully from East Broadway, it's just fine. It's a bad precedent and it begs for abuse.
 
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1. City has a near-monopoly on permitting development
2. City wants development to conform to its interests (generating revenue, delivering political dividends)
3. City "contracts" with development hire locally in order to capture as much tax revenue as possible and please the locals (what's it to the city that someone from Quincy is PO'd about this?)

None of this, of course, is being set down as a paper condition. It's done with a handshake and a wink of the eye. "We think you should hire locally," says city. "We will honor that commitment, where possible," promises developer. They are not necessarily breaking equal employment law, they are only making vague promises to hire locally within its limits, and, hey, most of what happens goes on behind closed doors anyway. There's no vested interest of potential non-Chinatown W Hotel employees to band together and raise a fuss, and insufficient evidence for any one such rejectee to whine about it.
 
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^Definately not the most flattering angle, although the buildings in the foreground are nice.
 
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I thought that was one of the better angles I'd seen of it so far... the glass looks really nice.
 
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I have to agree that is a pretty good angle. Kinda makes it feel like one of those contemporary additions to and old building except on a larger scale.
 
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