Unique Hotel: From Boat to Boutique

Thursday, January 20, 2022 04:18 PM EDT Updated: Friday, January 21, 2022 10:33 AM EDT
By Wes Mills
An Indy company plans to build a boutique hotel from refurbished shipping containers. (image courtesy: Pexels/Chanaka)

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.

  • One of the suites that will be offered at the Tiny Urban Escapes, a boutique hotel under construction in Indy. (photo provided)
  • One of the suites that will be offered at the Tiny Urban Escapes, a boutique hotel under construction in Indy. (photo provided)
  • 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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