The 13-acre Scanlon Drive property that once hosted generations of Randolph weddings, proms and community Thanksgiving dinners could soon become something entirely different: a 171,000-square-foot, 200-room hotel paired with a 65,000-square-foot events building featuring an 11,000-square-foot ballroom and a 400-seat dinner theater. Core Investments and A Yankee Line Inc. have filed a preliminary notification form laying out the vision, which would also connect the hotel and events building with a pedestrian bridge.
According to Banker & Tradesman, the plan calls for 540 parking spaces and a public trail linking the site to the adjacent Blue Hills Reservation. The property includes the former Lantana events facility, which has since been demolished, and sits on the same parcel that once held the Lombardo's banquet hall. Boston-based Core Investments agreed to buy the Lombardo's property from longtime owners Lombardo's Hospitality Group in 2022, according to the outlet.
Per Bisnow, the notification form states the project intends to redevelop an underutilized property as a regional hospitality, entertainment and recreation destination while improving access to adjacent public open space resources. Bisnow also reports the project triggered a state environmental review, known as MEPA, because of the site's heavy traffic footprint.
A Long Run, Then a Disputed Closing Date
Lombardo's Hospitality Group had owned the Randolph events space since 1983, hosting decades of proms, weddings and community Thanksgiving dinners before the family company expanded into other hospitality sectors, including catering, Bisnow reports. Exactly when the venue shut its doors is not entirely settled in public reporting: Bisnow's seed reporting places the closure in 2024, while Yahoo reported the 70,000-square-foot Lombardo's officially closed in December 2023. The venue's size has also been described differently across coverage — Yahoo put it at 70,000 square feet, while a 2022 article in the station's reporting lineage, cited through The Patriot Ledger, described it as a 71,500-square-foot event space and home of Vincent's Nightclub.
Back in 2022, Lombardo's Hospitality Group had projected the Randolph venue's closure for September 2023 and said in a statement that the company would continue to focus on catering and events after the Randolph closure, regardless of the exact shutdown date that ultimately played out.
Not the First Plan for This Lot
This isn't Core Investments' first proposal for the Scanlon Drive site. The company previously floated a 65,000-square-foot warehouse with office space, a crane yard and 35 parking spaces for the former Lantana parcel, according to Yahoo's earlier reporting. That industrial-use plan was dropped in June 2025, per Banker & Tradesman, clearing the way for the hospitality-focused concept now before regulators.
Before any shovels hit the ground, the project needs a site plan from the town of Randolph along with permits from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Banker & Tradesman reports. Randolph Director of Planning Michelle Tyler told the outlet that no application documents have yet been submitted to the town, meaning the proposal remains in an early, pre-review stage despite the detailed renderings and square footage already attached to it.
Core's Other Randolph and Boston Projects
Core Investments has been active elsewhere in Randolph recently. The company acquired the former Showcase Cinema de Lux from National Amusements in April 2026 for $9 million, and that theater reopened as a Regal Cinema in September 2026, according to Bisnow's reporting. In Boston, Core is also spearheading the 3.8-million-square-foot On the Dot project on Dorchester Avenue in South Boston. That project was approved back in 2023 but, as the same Bisnow reporting notes, has not yet begun construction — a timeline that offers some context for how long large-scale Core proposals can sit between approval and groundbreaking.
For now, the Lombardo's site redevelopment exists only on paper, pending the environmental review and the local approvals that have yet to reach Randolph's planning office. Whether the hotel, ballroom and dinner theater described in the filing ultimately get built — and on what timeline — remains an open question the town has not yet had the chance to weigh in on.
