(rshsdepot) Amtrak: Baltimore Penn Station to get hotel

["Alexander D. Mitchell IV" <LNER4472_@_verizon.net>]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-amtrak-hotel-0528,0,2999684.story




Penn Station will get hotel

A first on the East Coast, 77-room inn will occupy top three floors

  By Ed Gunts | ed.gunts_@_baltsun.com8:56
PM EDT, May 28, 2009
  

 After
years of planning and false starts, Amtrak has reached agreement with a
developer to turn the upper three levels of Baltimore's historic
Pennsylvania Station into a 77-room hotel, a first for an Amtrak-owned
station along the northeast corridor.



Amtrak officials confirmed this week that they have signed a lease with
Hospitality Partners of Bethesda that will enable the company to build
and run a "boutique" hotel inside the 1911 train station while it
continues to operate as a railroad terminal.



Construction of the $9 million project, called The Inn at Penn Station,
is expected to begin by year's end and be completed by late 2010. It
would be one of the first major revitalization projects to move ahead
in Baltimore's 100-acre Charles North renewal area since Mayor Sheila Dixon unveiled
a $1 billion "vision plan" to guide development seven months ago.



"It's good for the city," said M. Jay Brodie, president of the
Baltimore Development Corp., which has been working to revitalize the
area. "I think there's a real audience for a hotel in that location ...
I look forward to seeing it."



[Much more story at the link.]



Alexander D. Mitchell IV



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