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Social Media Honors

We are excited to have successfully opened our second hotel under The Godfrey’s brand and thrilled with the warm reception we’ve received in the Downtown Crossing neighborhood.

Yesterday, we received more exciting news that our hotel is a finalist in the prestigious 8th Annual Shorty Awards, honoring our social media work. Our recognition in the hospitality category of the awards is a great honor and we’re excited to share our entry with you here. We highlighted details about this very blog and the reason we like giving our partners and guests a behind-the-scenes look at our hotel. We also shared our social media efforts we conducted leading up to and during our Boston opening.

As background, the Shorty Awards honor the best social media campaigns across many industries. You can see more about the awards on their website.

Thank you to all who have followed along in our journey from brand creation to opening our doors in both Chicago and Boston. And of course, thank you to the Shorty Awards for recognizing us.

Downtown Crossing: Past | Present | Future

We’ve discussed before how proud we are to be a part of such a historic, vibrant neighborhood. Downtown Crossing has experienced many different personalities over the years, and we’re honored to be a part of the current revitalization that is bringing commerce and residents back to this neighborhood.

The team at Boston Virtual Imaging created a great 5-minute video highlighting and discussing the change that is currently underway in Downtown Crossing, which features one of our own team members.

“You’ve got something interesting going on all of the time,” said Paul Sauceda, The Godfrey Hotel Boston Director of Sales and Marketing. “There are offices in the day, but there is theater and restaurants and nightlife at night.”

Thank you to Boston Visual Imaging for including us in this video and thank you to our neighbors for welcoming us to Downtown Crossing.

We’re so excited to grow with you.

#GodfreyStyle

Following last week’s opening celebrations – the ribbon cutting and evening reception – we are excited to share an extended look inside of our hotel.

We invested a lot into the refurbishment of our two historical buildings, so creating a design and environment that honored our past while looking to the future was of the utmost importance to our team. We worked closely with The Gettys Group on our interior design. Gettys is an international interior design, branding, consulting and procurement firm and they paid close attention to many of the unique and convenient touches in our luxurious rooms. We believe we achieved a look that boasts both modern and peaceful interiors, but we know that our guests are the true judge of our success.

We hope you enjoyed taking a sneak peek and we hope to host you in the near future. Share photos during your stay with #GodfreyStyle.

Opening Celebrations: The Evening Reception

Following our Wednesday morning ribbon cutting ceremony, we hosted an evening receptions for our neighbors, friends and guests.

Our friends at Yvonne’s catered our food and beverage, our partner at George Howell Coffee shared up a sampling of coffee-based beverages and DJ Liz Ladoux made sure the music was flowing all night long.

It was the perfect ending to a momentous and exciting day, and we couldn’t be more honored to be a part of such a vibrant neighborhood. Thank you to everyone for your continued support.

You can view more of the day’s photos on our Facebook page here.

Image Credit: 617Images.

Opening Celebrations: The Ribbon Cutting

It’s with great pleasure and a true honor that we can officially announce our opening. This morning, we hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate opening our doors and becoming a permanent part of the Downtown Crossing neighborhood.

After sharing a welcoming note, our General Manager Larry Casillo presented our neighbors The Wang YMCA of Chinatown, Boston Asian: Youth Essential Services, Kwong Kow Chinese School and Asian American Civic Association with charitable donations of $25,000 each to mark the start of a long and hospitable relationship.

Following the donation presentation, John Rutledge, President & CEO of Oxford Hotels & Resorts, spoke on our partnership and what opening The Godfrey Boston means to us.

Rosemarie Sansone, President and CEO of the Boston Improvement District (BID) shared what our hotel opening means to the vibrant neighborhood of Downtown Crossing. Pat Moscaritolo, President & CEO of Greater Boston CVB, touched on how the restoration of the Amory and Blake buildings breathes new life into the neighborhood.

We were then honored to have Mayor Martin J. Walsh speak on the transformation of Downtown Crossing over the past few decades and how The Godfrey Hotel is part of the movement to restore our neighborhood and usher us into the new year.

Our ribbon cutting ceremony was an absolutely wonderful way to ignite our relationship with the city and to mark the opening of our doors to Downtown Crossing, the rest of Boston and our current and future guests. We’re thrilled to be officially open and want to thank everyone who has supported us each step of the way.

We look forward to having you stay with us.