For Part 2 of our Union Tower West final update series, we are going to take a tour of the Hotel Indigo, which opened yesterday, January 20, 2017. As we mentioned in our previous update, DenverInfill had extensive coverage of this project during its construction. Click the link below to access all of the updates:
Union Tower West Update History
Thanks to Catie Mayer of B Public Relations, DenverInfill was able to get a tour of the hotel just before it opened.
Let’s start out with the main lobby. When you enter the building from Wewatta Street, you are greeted with an art sculpture in the center of a warm and inviting room. The art installation was created by Denver-based sculptor Norman Epp, titled “Wildwood Cronesong: Survival.” It incorporates a black cherry tree’s single section of trunk, along with steel elements.
The interior entrance to the restaurant, Hearth & Dram, is also in this area. Below is a panorama showing its current progress. Hearth & Dram is expected to open January 28th.
On the other side of the lobby, you will find the hotel check-in counter along with access to the elevators and meeting rooms.
The hotel contains 1,188 square feet of meeting and event space accommodating up to 200 guests.
Each elevator lobby, on the hotel floors, features a full wall panorama and depictions of Denver’s currency during its gold rush era.
Finally, let’s head up in the tower and take a look at the guest rooms. Each guest room features hardwood floors, polished concrete ceilings, sliding barn doors, and oversized beds.
Given the location of the tower, the hotel rooms have great, unobstructed views of Coors Field and Downtown Denver.
The office portion of Union Tower West has tenants moving in as early as next month and should be near capacity by the end of the year. That’s a wrap on Union Tower West and the Hotel Indigo; another great contribution to the Union Station neighborhood!
Simply superior. Now they just need to get the Indigo Girls to do a two-week gig once a year. 😉
Great hotel and project, but god do I hate, hate, hate cement ceilings in these new construction buildings, such as shown in the Hotel rooms. It’s so austere and cold. I find it so annoying I would not knowingly stay at any hotel that has them. (I know many of the new buildings in the CPV also have them and I also hate that!).
If you want to rehabilitate an old industrial building and keep the industrial look and feel, fine, I get it. But I don’t want to be sitting in a $300 bucks per night hotel room in a brand new building looking up at concrete seams in the ceiling.
Yuck.