Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites

Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites.

• Salem Planning Board approved a new hotel called Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites at Pickering Wharf in July 1999, developed by the Rockett family.
• After many years of legal battles with the Hawthorne Hotel over the right to build another hotel in the city and many discussions by the city councilors

and mayors about a tax deal given to the new hotel, the feud ended between the Rockett's and others on Oct. 1, 2002.

• The Salem Waterfront Hotel & Suites, which opened in 2004, has 86 rooms, a restaurant and meeting rooms as well a swimming pool.
• It was announced in 2011 that the hotel planned to add another hotel to the existing one, but this has been held up in court.

See Also

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Waterfront Hotel

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Pickering Wharf

• Salem Waterfront Hotel website

• "Action stalls in hotel plans; Expansion on hold due to ongoing legal battle in Rockett family" Salem News, Jan. 16, 2013, p. 8

• "Waterfront hotel needs help from the city to expand" Salem News, Aug. 3, 1007, p. A4

• "Salem Waterfront Hotel is planning a large expansion" Salem News, June 16, 2011, p. 2