A massive new 1500 room hotel has received early approvals to be built along D Street adjacent to the Boston Convention Center. The new hotel will increase the capacity of the convention center and enhance the Center’s ability to attract much larger groups to Boston. The new hotel will create jobs, generate tax revenue and continue to completely transform the Seaport and West Side of South Boston into a vibrant new mixed-use neighborhood that used to be vacant and underutilized industrial waste land. The new Southie continues to blossom in leaps and bounds says the related Herald story.