Unique Hotel: From Boat to Boutique
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Indianapolis is prepared to welcome a new hotel to the city, but this one is far from your standard brick and mortar building. Officials will Friday break ground on Tiny Urban Escapes, a boutique hotel built from up-cycled shipping containers.
The development is located in a commercial corridor along West Michigan Street, in the heart of the Near West Great Place.
The developer, Robin Staten-Lanier, says travelers have grown tired of cookie-cutter hotels and have begun shifting toward new and more intimate types of hotels.
The company says Tiny Urban Escapes will offer fully automated, self-service modular suites
Construction is set to be complete later this summer.
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One of the suites that will be offered at the Tiny Urban Escapes, a boutique hotel under construction in Indy. (photo provided)
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One of the suites that will be offered at the Tiny Urban Escapes, a boutique hotel under construction in Indy. (photo provided)
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One of the suites that will be offered at the Tiny Urban Escapes, a boutique hotel under construction in Indy. (photo provided)
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