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Re: Marlborough Hotel conversion.

I don't know how many square feet the Marlborough is but I can't see how they'd fit 307 units in what's currently there. I guess if they make it into closet apartments, they could do it. On the other hand, I have no idea where they could possibly build, anyway. Can the extension support more floors? I doubt it but I don't know.

I did some quick math and it seems that if you assume the average unit is 600 square feet (fairly small one bedroom apartment) you need about a 200,000 square foot building. Turns out there's no data on that the Marlborough's square footage but if it's 200K square feet, I'd be surprised. And, as I said, those are fairly small units.

So, it seems they'd need more room to build the required units to match the number cited. I don't know where they're going to get that room unless the structures can support additions which seems unlikely. Maybe one of the resident architects can weigh in how many units they think would fit in those buildings. I can't see a bunch of one bedrooms on the small side being particularly attractive to anybody and even less so for anything besides young couples (at most)

And, just to help visualize what I'm talking about, 300 main contains 398 units.