Standard Hotels Takes Stake in Hip Texas Hospitality Group
Photo Credit: The lounge at Hotel Saint Cecilia in Austin. Bunkhouse Group
Skift Take
Standard Hotels' majority investment in the Bunkhouse Group gives our favorite little hotel company in America a chance to extend its laconic legs beyond Texas.
The Standard Hotels, owned by hotelier André Balazs, purchased a 51% stake in the Austin-based Bunkhouse Group of hotels, which might seem a little random to hospitality fans unfamiliar with the Texan properties.
Until you actually visit them, that is.
Bunkhouse operates Hotel Havana in San Antonio; Hotel Saint Cecilia, Hotel San Jose and neighboring Jo's coffee shop in Austin; and the wildly inventive little vintage trailer camp, El Cosmico, in Marfa.
Considered the hottest rooms in Austin during the annual South by Southwest tech/music/film festival, the two hotels in the Texan capital are both located in the artsy South Congress area a
