Asia’s first Hotel Indigo will be in Shanghai

IHG has signed a deal for its first Hotel Indigo in the region to be located in Shanghai.  The group’s fast-growing lifestyle brand occupy a  riverfront site along the Huangpu River in the form of the  Hotel Indigo Shanghai on the Bund.  The 180-room hotel is scheduled to begin welcoming guests in 2010.  The area around the hotel is also being developed into a commercial, retail, restaurant and entertainment district called the Pier 16th Development.