Bell Labs HQ Turned Tech Hub Picks Manager for $50 Million Hotel
- Two Roads will operate the business, developer Somerset says
- ‘Metroburb’ on site of legendary New Jersey technology pioneer
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The developer of Bell Works, the giant former Bell Labs headquarters resurrected as a suburban New Jersey tech hub, has chosen Two Roads Hospitality to operate a $50 million boutique hotel set to open in 2020.
On top of Eero Saarinen’s 2 million-square-foot (185,000-square-meter) glass-box building, Somerset Development will build a 115,000-square-foot sixth floor with 186 guest rooms, according to Ralph Zucker, Somerset’s president. Somerset markets the Bell Works site as a “metroburb,” a metropolitan hub of tech, art and culture contained in a suburban locale.