The Good, Bad & Ugly: From Halfway House to Boutique Hotel

Go behind the scenes of an 1890 halfway house turned boutique hotel—the surprises, challenges, lessons, and wins along the way.
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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Turning an 1890 Halfway House into a Boutique Hotel

What does it really take to transform a 135-year-old building with a complicated past into a boutique hotel?

Join Alyssa Strom and Amy Feller for a behind-the-scenes look at the renovation and redevelopment of an 1890 property being transformed from a former halfway house into a boutique hotel.

Alyssa will share the story from the owner and developer perspective—the vision, the decisions, the surprises, and what it’s like taking on a project where almost nothing is straightforward.

Amy, serving as Owner’s Representative, brings years of commercial construction experience to the project and helps bridge the gap between the owner, design team, contractor, budget, and construction process.

Together, they’ll share the good decisions, painful lessons, unexpected discoveries, budget challenges, design and construction issues, and the things they would absolutely do differently next time.

This isn’t a perfectly packaged “before and after.” It’s an honest look at what happens when real estate development, historic existing conditions, design, financing, and construction all collide—and how you keep a complicated project moving forward.