Newton-based The RMR Group has proposed a 447-foot hotel and residential tower at the corner of Causeway and North Washington streets

Boston needs to build more housing. It also wants to preserve the sort of buildings that make it feel like Boston. And the developers behind a 40-story tower proposed near North Station say they’re trying to figure out how to do both.

Newton-based The RMR Group has proposed a 447-foot hotel and residential tower at the corner of Causeway and North Washington streets, the first building of its scale proposed downtown since the pandemic, and one that would transform a key gateway to the city at the foot of the newly redone Bill Russell Bridge.

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