Rendering of the Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences.
The Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences is being developed by a partnership between Accor, which now owns the brand, Boston hoteliers Gary and Jeffrey Saunders of Saunders Hotel Group and developer Jordan Warshaw of the Noannet Group.
The Raffles Hotel brand is set to debut in North America with a 147-room property opening in Boston in three years’ time.
The Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences is being developed by a partnership between Accor, which now owns the brand, Boston hoteliers Gary and Jeffrey Saunders of Saunders Hotel Group and developer Jordan Warshaw of the Noannet Group.
After receiving permits from Boston in 2016, Warshaw said the team received “a lot of interest” from several major hotel groups, and eventually struck a deal with Raffles in late 2017.
One appeal of Raffles, Warshaw told the Boston Globe, is that each of its 12 hotels is unique, designed to fit in, and highlight, its host city, whether in South-east Asia, the Middle East, or Europe.
“They’re each very different, and very specific,” he said. “We did not want to bring in, for lack of a better word, a cookie-cutter luxury brand. We wanted something special.”
The 33-story building will be roughly half hotel, half condominiums.
Hotel highlights will include a two-storey sky lobby, a Raffles Spa with a 20-metre indoor pool, and a rooftop garden terrace and lounge.