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Massachusetts’ largest hotel could soon be partially transformed into a dorm for Massachusetts’ largest university.
One of the new owners of Sheraton Boston Hotel in Back Bay, an entity managed by bicoastal investment firm Hawkins Way Capital, has proposed converting one of the property’s two towers from a 428-room hotel into a dormitory that could house 854 students. Northeastern University is the dorm’s “initial tenant,” wrote Joshua Bird, general counsel of Hawkins Way, in a letter this month to the Boston Planning and Development Agency. Hawkins Way has offices in New York and Los Angeles, and bought the Sheraton last February in partnership with Värde Partners, another investment firm.
The second Sheraton tower, which rises 29 stories with 792 hotel rooms, “will remain a hotel and is not part of this proposal,” Bird’s letter states.
