The 26-story building,[2] completed in 2009,[3] is a mixed-use development with hotel, condo, restaurant, spa, retail, and bar components.

The architecture firms that designed the W BOSTON Hotel and Residences are William Rawn Associates, Architects Inc. and TRO Jung Brannen Inc.

After being open for just two years, due to slow business as well as a chain-wide decision, the store closed September 2011.

[6] Three Michelin Star Chef, Jean Georges Vongerichten's fine dining restaurant in W Boston.

Opened Spring/Summer 2010 Originally called 'The Living Room', the W Lounge is part W Boston's lobby area.

[8] A Newbury Street salon opened October 2012 on Level 1 of where the Bliss retail space used to be.

[11] Due to slow sales of the condos and weak hotel economy during the fall of 2009, the developer filed for Ch 11 Bankruptcy Protection April 2010.

Early October 2012, the appeals court reversed the previous ruling of the allowance of SW Boston to exit bankruptcy.

[16] In April 2014, the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals remained in favor of the bankruptcy judge who blocked efforts by the Prudential Insurance Co. of America to foreclose on the remaining condominiums owned by developer SW Boston at the W Boston Hotel & Residences, ending the legal back and forth over SW's post-bankruptcy reorganization plan.