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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Lodging |
Founded | 2000 |
Founder | Moisés Micha and Carlos Couturier |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Mexico and the United States |
Services | Lodging |
Website | http://www.grupohabita.mx/ |
Grupo Habita is a boutique hotel developer-operator based in Mexico City that owns hotels across Mexico and several in the United States.
Grupo Habita was founded in 1994 by Moisés Micha and Carlos Couturier, [1] and opened its first hotel in 2000, called Habita Hotel and located in Mexico City. [2]
Afterward, Grupo Habita expanded its base and established 13 hotels across Mexico, with its most notable and praised property, Downtown, in Mexico City. [2] [3] The company later started branching into the United States.
One of its hotels, Deseo, has been described as playing a crucial part in making the Playa del Carmen region of Mexico a hot spot for tourism. [2]
In 2011, the firm opened its first U.S. property, a hotel called Hôtel Americano in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [2] This hotel is Grupo Habita's largest, with 56 rooms. [4]
Grupo Habita's hotels have been described by observers as being excellent for younger travelers. [2] [3]
The group operates the Robey Hotel in Chicago's Wicker Park that opened in 2017. [5] [6]
In 2016 it also expressed an interest in opening a hotel in the Stockade District of Kingston, New York, [7] a historic Hudson Valley city north of New York City that is fast becoming a cultural hot spot, with a large local hipster culture, a strong arts community and a vibrant nightlife. [8] [9]