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Area hotels race to invest in high-tech, high-tone upgrades

Hotels on Route 128 corridor are jazzing up accoutrements

By Scott Van Voorhis

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 04, 2012

After hunkering down at corporate headquarters during the Great Recession, the American business traveler has hit the road again. And hotel operators and investors are betting big that demand for rooms will soar along the highways west of Boston in Newton, Needham and Waltham, shelling out tens of millions on everything from spiffy new décor to high-tech upgrades. Meanwhile, the new owners of Natick’s Crowne Plaza recently rolled out a dramatic revamp of their own.

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