The 114-unit building will be the first market-rate, purely residential St. Regis and will offer hotel-level amenities for exclusive resident use.
Jon Cronin has been impressed by the level of service offered by the St. Regis hotel since he first stayed in their Beijing location over 20 years ago. Since then, he’s stayed in other St. Regis spots across the world and has been impressed by the consistent and personalized care he’s received by staff at every turn, whether they were leaving personalized slippers for his family or dropping off a teddy bear for his young son.
“It kind of opened my eyes,” Cronin says. “Regular folks can be treated really special.”
So when Marriott International, which owns the St. Regis chain, began looking at a site for a new hotel in Boston, Cronin, who is the principal at Cronin Development, had another idea: Why not open a St. Regis, but one that was purely residential? Cronin had a vision of high-end condos where residents could experience the luxury hotel service of a St. Regis, but on a permanent basis. Here, condo owners would have the luxury of butler-service, but the intimacy that comes with not being in the pool next to a hotel guest. And why not place it on the Boston Harbor on one of the last residential waterfront sites in the Seaport?…