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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: September 21, 2018
Russell and Dawson starts 55,000 s/f Hampton Inn for Jazzlyn Hospitality
Keene, NH Russell and Dawson was selected by Jazzlyn Hospitality II LLC to provide architecture, engineering and construction services for a Hampton Inn & Suites. Construction of the four-story, 58,000 s/f, 100-room hotel on a 2.25-acre site is slated to be completed by May 2019.
Jamsan Hotel Management has been selected as the management company. The design scheme for the Hampton Inn & Suites includes stucco, brick, indoor swimming pool, metal and glass, and will follow standard protypical brand design standards.
“Since 1965, we have provided architectural design and engineering services to over 200 hotel projects in the northeast market. We recently added construction services to become a design-build contractor, this is our second design-build hotel project in the northeast region,” said Chirag Thaker, president of Russell and Dawson.
“Russell and Dawson has been our AE firm for the many hotel projects of ours. Recently they provided architecture and engineering services for our Holiday Inn Express at Chelmsford, this is the first project for us where we have selected them to provide comprehensive A/E/C services as a design-build contractor,” said Ashok Patel, developer of the project.
Other ongoing hotel projects by Russell and Dawson for Jamsan Hotel Management Group include:
• Element Hotel, Chelmsford, Mass. – remodel and rebrand 19-year old hotel
• Aloft, Framingham, Mass. – redesign and rebrand of hotel built in 1969
• Boston Hotel, East Boston - a building constructed in 1912 for a shoe factory getting converted into an upscale hotel.
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