83-Room Boutique Hotel Scheduled For Spring 2019 Opening In East Austin

EAST AUSTIN, TX — An 83-roomboutique hotel in East Austin is scheduled to open by spring of 2019, according to a published report.

Officials of the Arrive hotel at East Sixth and Chicon streets told the Austin American-Statesman said construction of the lodging facility began this week. The hotel marks the Texas entry for hotel officials who already operate an Arrive hotel in Palm Springs, Calif. that opened last year, officials told the newspaper.

The expansion-minded hotelier plans to open more hotels over the course of several years, according to the report. But none of those planned sites have been formally announced, they noted.

Officials described the Arrive hotel concept as somewhat unconventional sans a lobby, with guests instead checking in at the bar. That's the extent of the details provided by hotel officials, judging from the scant report.

The construction adds to a growing list of high-end development sweeping over East Austin, long an enclave inhabited by a working-class population that has become one of the city's trendier sectors in the last decade or so. That gentrification wave has come much to the chagrin of longtime residents who have not only witnessed the ever-changing landscape of their neighborhoods, but often priced out of their homes once development-fueled hikes in property rates take effect.

But in speaking to the newspaper, Arrive officials didn't hint at any resistance to their plans to build the boutique hotel. Two years ago, other would-be developers of a similar development at 1207 E. Cesar Chavez had no such luck, withdrawing their application to build their boutique hotel after significant neighborhood opposition to the plans. In a series of reports, the Austin Chronicle did a thorough job of following that story in 2015.

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