Preston Springs Hotel Redevelopment

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Here's an Outline version of the previous link...that paywall is infuriating: https://outline.com/UeNsVt

There’s really no way anyone could have forced this private owner to invest the millions it would have cost to redevelop the hotel into something useful and that could turn a profit. Nor should the City of Cambridge have committed taxpayers’ money to purchase the hotel and do the job itself.

This is pretty much all that needs to be said at this point. No developer was willing to sink the amount of money needed to save this and the city should never be expected to handle the costs either unless it was a truly significant building. I don't get why people were so attached to this place anyway...it looks like it was made out of EIFS and the metal roof looked so unusual on this. The interior was completely gutted and most of it was re-drywalled years ago - so there wasn't even a whole lot of original architecture left to the place.