A local developer is proposing a six-story hotel with 42 suites and a rooftop restaurant and terrace on East Cottage Street, next to a five-story apartment building he recently put up on Dorchester Avenue.
In a filing with the Boston Planning Department on Friday for his 269-275 East Cottage St., developer Adam Sarbaugh said he would raze an existing house and the former Little House, both of which were built in 1900, both of which he said are seriously outdated.
Sarbaugh says that the new hotel suites, which would include some meant for extended stays, will “lessen pressure” on the surrounding residential housing stock by providing a new alternative to Airbnb and similar short-term rentals.
He adds the restaurant would make it easier to find a tenant for the restaurant space in his Dorchester Avenue building that has gone vacant because its small size and “limited circulation area” means nobody wants to rent it. He said that space and the new rooftop space/terrace in the hotel would be connected by a dedicated elevator to zip patrons from the street level up to the roof. There would be a separate elevator for access to the other floors.
The proposed building would have no guest parking; the filing says its location just off Dorchester Avenue “encourages the use of public transportation” by guests, visitors and employees.
