Newbury Street Shake Shack getting a new topping: A boutique hotel

The Boston Licensing Board this week voted to assistance a licence for a 12-room boutique edifice astatine 234 Newbury St., wherever guests volition cheque successful via a distant telephone center.

Sonder Hospitality USA's edifice volition inhabit the 3 floors of the existing building, supra the Shake Shack.

Licensing Board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce expressed immoderate interest astir information astatine the hotel, due to the fact that akin remote-controlled hotels person "turned into locations wherever a batch of transgression has happened."

Sonder said that during the day, determination volition ever beryllium astatine slightest 1 worker connected work and that a information institution hired by Sonder volition patrol the grounds respective times a night. The gathering volition besides person respective interior and exterior cameras and that 1 of Sonder's 13 existent Boston-area employees would beryllium accessible via a dedicated telephone number.

The mayor's bureau supported the proposal. The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay voted to not reason it.