Retail/Hospitality

Construction Starts At New Hotel – developed by A.D. Makepeace Company

Wareham, MA – Groundbreaking ceremonies were held recently for construction of a 90-room TownePlace Suites  in Wareham.The new hotel will be owned and operated by the Lafrance Hospitality Company and is the second building under construction at Rosebrook Place, the A.D. Makepeace Company’s mixed-use development on Route 28 at the I-495/I-195 interchange.

A.D. Makepeace Company President and CEO Michael P. Hogan described the hotel as the second of two “bookends” for the v site, the first being the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank branch whose new steel frame was visible from the groundbreaking site.

“I just have one thing to say: this is a big deal,” exclaimed Marie Oliva, president and CEO of the Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce before a crowd of about 50 Lafrance executives, Wareham officials, other local businesses, and employees and board members of the A.D. Makepeace Company. Oliva said tourism and economic development “go hand in hand.”

The hotel, designed and constructed by Opechee Construction Corp. of Belmont, N.H., is scheduled for opening in early 2015.  It will include a 300-seat function facility and an indoor pool.

Rosebrook Place includes 32,000sf of retail and office space, and luxury apartments, all overlooking one of the A.D. Makepeace Company’s 2,000 acres of cranberry bogs.

Across the bog is Rosebrook Business Park, a 186,000sf office park whose first building, completed in 2011, houses Southcoast Hospital Group and Fresenius Medical Care.