The Journey Begins...

Welcome to our first blog entry about the Hotel Indigo - Athens. Consider this a living diary of our journey to build a sustainable boutique hotel.

What makes this project so exciting is the people that are involved. Just yesterday, we visited with bankers, musicians, curators, and an investor, and every one of them is enthusiastic about what a community-based hotel means for Athens.

Creating community is one of our key tenets for sustainable hotel development. As an example of how this can play out, we are working with UGA’s Music Business Program to carve out a space on our property as a dedicated performance venue. This venue would serve as a live lab for business students and musicians to manage concerts and exhibit new talent. Proceeds would go back into the program and help grow UGA’s reputation in the music business.

The passion of the people involved is inspiring. We just learned that one of our key investors is an avid botanist and loves the Arts-and-Crafts aesthetic of Greene & Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright. Our visit to his lakeside home in Buckhead (Madison, not Atlanta) yesterday reminded us that environments are expressions of the people who live in them. We were impressed by every detail of our experience, from the architectural features to the Meyer lemon squeezed into our drinking water. To share our tour with us, check out our slideshow entitled “House on Lake Oconee.”

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