Oct 27 2008
Channel District Hotel Set To Begin Construction
Construction of the Hotel Indigo in the Channel District of Tampa is set to begin before the end of the year.
The $29 million, 168-room Hotel Indigo will be located at Meridian, Cumberland and 11th streets near the Florida Aquarium.
We are ready and have loan commitments, and all indications are we are moving forward,” said Ford Smith, president of Tampa-based BayStar Hotel Group.
There are 27 other Hotel Indigos across the United States, with six in Florida and one each in Canada, Mexico and England.
The hotel will be a beautiful and luxurious one, with hardwood floors and area rugs in guestrooms, and a tone setting lobby with a surfboard-shaped check-in rather than the conventional lobby desks.
Each Indigo Hotel tends to have elements that set it apart from the others, but all implement the “Golden Mean” or “Phi,” a concept from the year 1200 that involves ratios of numbers that contribute to pleasant eye patterns.
The hotel should create 50 new jobs, as well as the 150 to 200 jobs created for the construction project.
