Boutique Hotelier Municipal Grand featured in Boutique Hotelier
Midnight Auteur to open cocktail-anchored boutique hotel in Savannah
Hospitality firm will reimagine a 1960s banking headquarters as a 44-room hotel
by Eamonn Crowe
Hospitality firm Midnight Auteur will open a new cocktail-anchored luxury boutique hotel, Municipal Grand, in Savannah’s North Historic District neighborhood in early 2025.
The project marks Midnight Auteur’s first official venture in the luxury boutique hotel space and will comprise 44 guest rooms, a lobby bar and restaurant, rooftop pool, and subterranean bar – all across six floors.
The mid-century property, originally built as a bank’s headquarters in the 1960s is being re-imagined by locally based architect, Lynch Associate Architects, and long standing interior design partner, AAmp Studio.
Ryan Diggins, partner and CEO at Midnight Auteur, commented: “We hold a deep, and slightly obsessive, reverence for the all-day lobby bar, which is really the foundation of Midnight Auteur.
“We love the idea of immersing our team and our guests in a vibrant, celebratory experience that only a hotel lobby bar can appropriately capture. The community created and hospitality shared over a coffee or cocktail is something we’re passionate about, and look forward to bringing to Savannah.’’
Midnight Auteur was born from the successful partnership between The Ramble Hotel and Death & Co, which began almost six years ago when the storied bar opened its second location in the lobby of The Ramble Hotel.
Led by Diggins and fellow co-founders David Kaplan and Alex Day, who have more than four decades of combined hospitality experience in respective areas of expertise, Midnight Auteur follows a vertically integrated approach that includes the ownership, development, and operation of cocktail-anchored boutique hotels.
Kaplan added: “Our collaboration in Denver has been incredibly rewarding, and since opening The Ramble Hotel, we’ve spent years evolving the ideas started within its walls. We were very lucky to find this property in Savannah, which will enable us to bring our vision to life in one of our favorite cities in the world. While it may be a lofty ambition, we hope to create a space that can serve as Savannah’s living room.”
