$12M guts to glory story: Sleek boutique Hotel Indigo colors El Paso

​EL PASO – Hotel Indigo has opened in Downtown El Paso in a
53-year-old building that was transformed through a yearlong multimillion-dollar
renovation.

The building at 325 N. Kansas St., a block from City Hall,
was gutted and turned into a sleek, hip, 119-room boutique hotel at a cost of
more than $12 million.

It’s part of the Indigo chain started in 2004 by
InterContinental Hotels Group.

The hotel employs about 45 people. Rooms at the hotel
currently cost $119 to $229 a night.

The hotel’s ground-floor
restaurant is still under construction and is expected to open by the end of
February, said Miguel Diaz, the hotel’s general manager.

The 12-story building, with a three-level parking garage
sandwiched between its ground floor and seven floors of hotel rooms, housed
several hotel brands over the years.

Madhi Nair, one of the hotel’s owners​, estimated it will take at least six months
to get business to an ideal 70 percent average nightly occupancy.