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Burlington, Vermont

New Hotel seeks LEED Certification

This 128-Room hotel is proposed for a site on Cherry Street in Burlington, midway between the Church Street Marketplace and the City's waterfront. The ground floor is organized around a bar and lounge with outdoor seating on the South Terrace overlooking an interior courtyard with views of Lake Champlain. The project is currently moving through zoning reviews, and is seeking LEED Certification by the US Green Building Council.

The classic modern aesthetic is executed with a simple material palette of brick, stone, wood, metal and glass.  The combination presents an uncommon warmth and texture, and the wood paneling and stone serves as the "base" of the building.  The form of the building breaks up the mass of a long street front.  The uses on the ground floor make the street edge very "porous" with separate entry areas for the hotel, the City garage, and leased spaces on the East end including a restaurant.  The hotel entrance and drop-off area is directly on the street and will enhance the urban environment at this end of Cherry Street with regular activity.

The site is a difficult one.  Much of the building wraps the front of an existing City parking garage.  The narrow slot between the garage and the sidewalk is just wide enough for a double-loaded corridor with rooms on both sides.  Lower floors up against the garage contain back-of-house spaces, mechanical rooms and offices for hotel operations.  The building must also straddle the entrance to the City garage, and foundations must work around portions of the garage that extend underground into the footprint of the new hotel.

Walking into the Lobby from Cherry Street, and moving South through the building, the bar area steps up to clearspan over another garage entrance ramp from the Marriott hotel next door.  While the building is stepping up, the ground around it becomes lower, and the rear terrace with a view to the lake actually covers short-term parking in the Marriott's interior courtyard.