The Source Hotel

Denver’s River North arts district — RiNo for short — is the city’s latest urban-redevelopment success story, and the Source Hotel is an important part of its evolution. It’s an ultra-contemporary building on the site of an old iron works, in a neighborhood that was fairly recently an industrial one. And within its walls are 100 modernist-inspired boutique hotel rooms that wear this industrial heritage on their metaphorical sleeve — polished concrete and Baltic birch meet simple Japanese-inspired furniture and, in some rooms, rolling garage-door-style windows that can be fully opened to the crisp Colorado air.

As inspired as the accommodations are, they’re only half of the story here. The hotel’s full name, in fact, is The Source Hotel + Market Hall, and that market hall is home to dozens of vendors, from a barber and a couple of retailers to a bread and pastry bakery, a rooftop brewery-style restaurant with a panoramic view of the Front Range, and no fewer than three Michelin Guide–recommended restaurants: Safta, Smok, and Temaki Den. All this just a few minutes’ walk from the restaurants, bars, shops, and galleries on and around Larimer Street, RiNo’s main drag.