Grupo Habita is a boutique hotel developer-operator based in

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that owns hotels across Mexico and several in the United States.

History

Grupo Habita was founded in 1994 by Moisés Micha and Carlos Couturier, and opened its first hotel in 2000, called ''Habita Hotel'' and located in Mexico City.

Hotels

Afterward, Grupo Habita expanded its base and established 13 hotels across Mexico, with its most notable and praised property, ''Downtown'', in Mexico City. 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

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region of Mexico a hot spot for tourism. In 2011, the firm opened its first U.S. property, a hotel called ''Hôtel Americano'' in the

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neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. This hotel is Grupo Habita's largest, with 56 rooms. Grupo Habita's hotels have been described by observers as being excellent for younger travelers. The group will operate a hotel in Chicago's Wicker Park, due to open in spring 2016. In 2016 it also expressed an interest in opening a hotel in the Stockade District of Kingston, New York, a historic

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city north of New York City that is fast becoming a cultural hot spot, with a large local hipster culture, a strong

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community and a vibrant

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References

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