For its opening night, a room with twin bunk beds at the Hudson Square Arlo rents for $199 and a room with a queen bed and terrace is listed for $339, according to Hotels.com. All the units have 47-inch LED television screens, and bunk rooms have one for each bed.

Space is tight: A king-size bed touches the walls at both ends, mini refrigerators are tucked inside night stands and wall-mounted peg boards are used for hanging clothing. The desk is a shelf that pulls down from the wall.

“The idea is you’re not hanging out in your room,” Schumer, head of U.S. investments for Quadrum, said on a tour of the Hudson Square site last week.

Bourbon Bar

Areas for socializing include a rooftop bar, ground-floor indoor and outdoor lounges, and another bar that specializes in bourbon, said Javier Egipciaco, the managing director of both Arlo properties. A game room doubles as a place where guests and local residents can tap into the hotel’s free wi-fi or sip a latte from the 24-hour coffee counter. Grab-and-go food will be sold on the ground floor, where a full-service restaurant will eventually be added, Schumer said.

Quadrum terminated its contract with Commune in February, ending plans to open Commune’s first two micro-unit hotels, under the name Tommie. Previous projects such as the Nautilus in Miami Beach, Florida, and the Godfrey Hotel Chicago gave Schumer and Pavlov the confidence that they could create and manage their own brand and eventually expand it, they said.

Commune said the decision to end its management agreement with the developers was mutual. The company is still pursuing its Tommie brand globally, with hotels slated for cities including Los Angeles, New Orleans and Miami, according to an e-mailed statement. The first will be in Los Angeles’s Hollywood area.

Micro Competitors

Arlo and it’s micro-hotel concept already have some established competition. The Pod Hotel, which offers single rooms with twin-size beds, has two Manhattan locations. Yotel, a brand inspired by the small-space luxury of first-class airline service, has a 669-room hotel in Midtown and announced in 2014 that it plans to open in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood as part of a global expansion.

Starting a brand that’s not affiliated with a larger chain has risks in that the upstart won’t be able to benefit from a parent company’s marketing and global reservations system, said Jan Freitag, senior vice president at STR. Arlo’s founders say that advantage is overstated, and that the hotels are listed on multiple websites such as Hotels.com and Expedia, where travelers are finding them and booking rooms.