At Kansas City’s Crossroads Hotel, Aparium’s Quiet Bet That Hotels Should Feel Like Neighborhoods

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The “third place” — that sociologists’ term for the spaces between home and work where community actually happens — has long belonged to cafes, pubs, and neighborhood plazas. Hotels haven’t really qualified. Travelers have historically drifted between unfamiliar rooms and bars that, however vibrant, rarely beckon them to stay past their last drink order. The […]

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