NEW BEDFORD – Construction crews broke ground yesterday on what will be the first hotel located in downtown New Bedford in four decades, The Standard-Times reported.
Lafrance Hospitality Co., a Westport-based developer, plans to spend $12.5 million on the new five-story, 106-room Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott hotel, the paper said. It will be located on MacArthur Drive, across from Waterfront Grille along the city’s waterfront.
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When it opens, the Fairfield Inn will be the first downtown hotel since the New Bedford Hotel closed in 1969. A company executive told The Standard-Times the goal is to have it open early next summer, with separate conference facilities opening in fall 2010.
New Bedford officials have long argued that the city needs a downtown hotel to house tourists and boost economic development.
