posted by Joe Polk at 3:26 PM /
A public hearing conducted by Mt. Lebanon commissioners last night provided details for a proposed boutique hotel on Washington Road.
The 12,600-square foot parcel is a parking lot but developer Kratsa Properties of Harmar is promising a seven-story SpringHill Suites by Marriott that will echo the architecture of major buildings surrounding it. James McMullan of architects Burt,Hill said the 108-room hotel will provide "the smallest footprint possible" at the ends of what is considered downtown Mt. Lebanon.
The stone-and-brick facade will be fronted by 10 feet of green space, with an indoor pool area and hillside parking garage in the back along the area known as Parse Way.
Link: www.postgazette.com/pg/09041/948124-100.stm
The 12,600-square foot parcel is a parking lot but developer Kratsa Properties of Harmar is promising a seven-story SpringHill Suites by Marriott that will echo the architecture of major buildings surrounding it. James McMullan of architects Burt,Hill said the 108-room hotel will provide "the smallest footprint possible" at the ends of what is considered downtown Mt. Lebanon.
The stone-and-brick facade will be fronted by 10 feet of green space, with an indoor pool area and hillside parking garage in the back along the area known as Parse Way.
Link: www.postgazette.com/pg/09041/948124-100.stm
Labels: hotel, washington road
6 Comments:
I love how the article fails to specify exactly where the hotel is, calling it at the "ends" of what is downtown Mt. Lebanon. Does this mean there will be a two new hotels, or is the new hotel really long? Isn't this considered Uptown, not Downtown?
< /sarcasm>
For those who may not know, the hotel is proposed to be built on the metered parking lot near the Howard Hanna building.
I'm hopeful that with a hotel in Uptown, more business will choose to remain open or have longer hours on Sunday.
I'm hopeful that, with a hotel in the Mt. Lebanon business district, more businesses that don't offer anything related to the martial arts will choose to come here, not just have longer hours on Sunday...
or better yet, we could now have martial arts studios open on Sundays!
In what alternative universe does a "Spring Hill Suites" count as a "boutique" hotel? I know boutique hotels. Boutique hotels are friends of mine. But you, Spring Hill Suites, are no boutique hotel!
i don't know who's kidding who, but springhill suites by marriott is hardly a 'boutique' hotel. it's just going to be small, that's all. do we mt lebanese really think it has to be called boutique to win approval? we need convenient places to house our families and friends, and this will do nicely. but upscale and boutique it ain't.
hilary
That's Hilary Chiz in the comment above.
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