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Ritz Carlton Plans October Reopening After $45M Renovation

BOSTON-Hotel occupancy rates here continue their downward trend but the Ritz Carlton Boston says it will reopen its doors next October, a year after closing for a $45-million renovation. The hotel closed three months earlier than planned, due to the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on March 05, 2002

BOSTON-Despite occupancy rates in the hotel market here that continue to plummet, the Ritz-Carlton Boston will reopen its doors this October, exactly a year after it closed down for a $45-million renovation.

The hotel was closed nearly three months earlier than planned–this past October–due to the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The hotel chain had opened the 193-room Ritz-Carlton Boston Common on Sept. 5. “It didn’t make sense to have two hotels operating then,” John Rolfs, the general manager of Ritz-Carlton Hotels of Boston, tells GlobeSt.com.

When the 75-year old hotel opens it will have three rooms less than it did when it closed–272–a new facade, new water pipes, refurbished guest rooms, and a new Dining Room, which had been shut down a year before the hotel closed.

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