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November 8, 2007

Aloft, a Starwood subsidiary, will run Dynamo House hotel

A blast of confetti rang in the beginning of a $150 million renovation project at the former South Street Power Station.

Representatives from Struever Bros., Eccles and Rouse, the Baltimore-based development company, ceremoniously broke ground on the Dynamo House Project, which will include a hotel, restaurants and office space, alongside a Heritage Harbor Museum.

The museum is expected to be completed by 2010, during the first of the two-phase project.

The limited service Aloft hotel, a division of the W Hotel chain, it will have about 170 rooms, a swimming pool, a fitness room and a rooftop garden.

But more than the roof will be green, as the development company announced today that the building will conform to LEED standards, ensuring some measure of sustainable building practices and efficient energy systems.

For example, the developers hope to install solar panels on the roof to generate power for the electric signs that will be mounted on rebuilt smoke stacks, referring to the building’s past as an industrial (and polluting) power.

Past meets future, dirty meets cleaner.

-- projo.com writer Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal Staff Writer Gregory Smith

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