The state is close to selecting a developer to build on one of the last prime parcels along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston.
Two finalists were tabbed Wednesday to compete for the rights to Parcel 9, a triangular sliver of land at Blackstone and Hanover streets, near the Haymarket pushcart vendors. Blackstone Market LLC has proposed building apartments above a food market, while Normandy Real Estate Partners LLC would build a hotel with winter gardens.
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I don't have a horse in this race, but looking at the schemes, the lower two levels of the Blackstone plan give more to the residents of the city, and thus gets my vote, however, though I believe whether the space above is apartments or a hotel is less important to the people of the city, my feeling is, a hotel, if successful, will have more of an incentive, and more money, to maintain the public realm around it. My split decision: Blackstone base with Normandy top.