Cropped up against the train tracks in the River Arts District, the historic Kent Building finally hums with activity after laying abandoned for over 30 years. Starting out as a breakfast cereal company in 1923, it roasted and sold coffee as well as other breakfast goods. Due to a fire in 1925, the building had to be structurally redesigned, turning it into a resilient artifact from nearly 100 years ago. The narrow building next to it functioned as a Budweiser factory sometime in the last century as well.

The historical building awakens again, about 100 years later, this time as a 70-room hotel, in the fashion of the Art Deco-style factory it once was. Restoration teams work on preserving old bricks and graffiti to give the future hotel a truly unique aesthetic.