BAR HARBOR, Maine — A resort lodging company has completed construction of its newest hotel and opened it for business, it indicated Tuesday in a press release.
Ocean Properties, which owns more than 100 resort properties in North America, opened the doors of the four-story, 85-room West Street Hotel on Tuesday, July 3. All room revenue from its first night of business will be donated to the Bar Harbor Food Pantry, the company indicated.
Construction of the $12 million hotel, which overlooks the local harbor, began in the fall of 2010.
The new hotel features a rooftop pool and an Irish pub and restaurant. It also provides guests with access to the nearby Bar Harbor Club.
Information about the hotel is available online at theweststreethotel.com.
Other lodging businesses in Bar Harbor owned and operated by Ocean Properties include the Harborside Hotel & Marina, the Regency Hotel, Days Inn, Ledgelawn Inn and Park Entrance Motel. The firm also owns the Samoset Resort in Rockport, The Sagamore Resort in Lake George, N.Y., and has properties in Florida, Canada, the Southwest and the Caribbean.
Ahahaha Biggest EYE SORE in Maine now is downtown Bar Harbor!!!!!
Good that’s is where it belongs. The more tourists that stay there the less will infest the rest of the state. Better to keep them all together in one spot..
That would work if most of the tourists didn’t drive to Bar Harbor, stopping in turn in every little podunk Maine town on the way, and clogging up our roads to take pictures of deer and seagulls.
Those of us up this way do not get many passing on their way to BH. We get a few of those going to canada or the touring motorcycles that are so loud you can hear them coming a few miles down the road.
What would you have done differently? The waterfront lots were all crumbling, and foot traffic was minimal compared with Main street & Cottage street.
Have you seen it yet? As usual Walsh has made an eyesore beautiful. The Quarterdeck was old and crumbling. That whole end of West Street was an eyesore and now look at it..it’s beautiful.
While I agree that the end of West Street was in rough shape, I can’t agree that what replaced it is beautiful. It is a over sized cookie cutter resort hotel that screams cheesy. Both this place and the travesty across the street are completely out of character with the Bar Harbor waterfront. That seems to be the sentiment I have heard around town, with the word “hideous” most often used to describe the new hotel.
On one hand I can appreciate the economic investment Walsh has brought to the town, but on the other hand it is too bad it was not someone with some taste and more than a desire to plop down generic resort buildings.
It could have been much, much worse. The architect did a great job of keeping to the spirit of Bar Harbor streetfronts, making the large hotel look like multiple buildings with different styles; brick, shingle side, and wooden clapboards, all with their own style of balcony and different offsets from the street.