Sun 16 Dec 2007
The New York Times reports on Patriot Place,
[A] vast real estate development being built by Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, on about 350 acres surrounding Gillette Stadium.
Plans for Patriot Place include a 14-screen movie theater, a 150-room Renaissance hotel, dozens of stores and restaurants, a 500-seat jazz club and a 100,000-square-foot medical office center. A $20 million interactive exhibit hall, intended to celebrate not only the New England Patriots but also youth football throughout New England, is also planned.
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Patriot Place is categorized as a “lifestyle destination center,” a concept that originated in the Midwest in the 1990s and has since spread to the Southeast and the Southwest, according to Jonathan A. Kraft ['86], Mr. Kraft’s son and the president of the Kraft Group. The idea refers to a large-scale mixed-use development, offering entertainment as well as shopping.
If you build it, they will shop.
December 16th, 2007 at 8:26 am
thank heaven for places like Williamstown.
December 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Thank goodness for the medical center….to take care of all the people that “shop till they drop”.
December 16th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
And somewhere, Thoreau is wondering, “Why the hell did I bother?”
December 16th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
What a vacuous KraftWerk is this?
December 16th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
How Enterprising.
The four years Jonathan was at Williams were four years Amherst won in football. Good to see the Krafts are having better luck as #1 Pats Fan and owners.
The family has done a lot of good work in the communities including underwriting ($750,000 a pop) playing fields for the town of Brookline and Tufts U and they hosted the MIAA Football Championships (Massachusetts high schools) a week a go at the Razor.