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A hotel for Somerville’s Teele Square in renderings shown May 28 by developers.

A public meeting on development at 1154 Broadway – a vacant lot in Teele Square nicknamed “The Pit” – was held Monday as a first step in the process of securing permits for the site’s use for an eight-story, 99-room hotel.

It will be the second round of permitting for the site under the same owners since the origins of The Pit in 2011, when fire devastated several buildings at the site. Plans for a 75-room, six-story hotel on the site were approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals in 2018 but timed out.

The development team was represented on Monday by architect Will Chalfant, attorney Adam Dash and property manager and applicant Binoj Pradhan. The meeting was sponsored by councilor at-large K

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