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Pro Con Inc. is architect/CM for Renaissance Hotel at Patriot Place

Pro Con Inc. is the architect and construction manager for the new four star, 150-key, Marriott Renaissance Hotel and Spa at Patriot Place. The full service hotel and spa is part of a 1.3 million s/f lifestyle and entertainment center that is being built next to Gillette Stadium. S & S Hotels, LLC is developing the Renaissance Hotel & Spa and Colwen Management Inc. will manage the resort. Financing was provided by RBS Citizens Bank. "The 6-story steel framing is erected and the hotel is beginning to take shape," said to Mark Schleicher, owner of S & S Hotels. The hotel's public spaces will include a stylish 98-seat restaurant, a private dining room, a lounge with 60-foot bar and stone hearth oven, a flexible space conference room, an enclosed business center, a club lounge on the 5th floor, state-of-the-art fitness center, indoor pool and a full service spa with 14 treatment rooms that will offer facials, massages, body wraps/scrubs, nail care, and hair care. "The design and layout of the Renaissance Hotel at Patriot Place reflects the brand's new imaginative multi-purpose lobby zones, distinctive room designs and new signature services," said James Loft, AIA, principal and executive vice president of Pro Con. The hotel is being built to accommodate a 100-room addition. The S & S Hotels' portfolio includes 17 hotel properties throughout the Northeast. "We look forward to managing this exciting, full service Renaissance Hotel & Spa at Patriot Place," stated Wendell Butcher, president of Colwen Management. The Kraft Group is developing Patriot Place, which when complete, will include over 80 stores and restaurants, several entertainment venues including a 500-seat jazz club, a sports medicine and healthcare clinic, a 14-screen movie theater, and "The Hall at Patriot Place", the New England Patriot's Hall of Fame museum and pro shop, and the Renaissance Hotel and Spa. Pro Con Inc began construction in the spring 2008 and S & S Hotels plans to open the Renaissance in the summer 2009.
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