A historic building on downtown Dallas’ east side will get new life as a unique hotel.

The three-story building at 2105 Commerce Street is next to the big East Quarter development that involves redoing dozens of properties on the eastern edge of downtown.

Sova Hospitality has filed plans to convert the almost 90-year-old building into a 39-room “micro-hotel.”

Micro-hotels offer travelers tiny accommodations in high-demand urban areas. Rooms run 100 or 200 square feet, and the concept is popular in New York, California and Europe.

The hotels often include high-end amenities and cutting-edge designs to make up for the diminutive room sizes.

Sova Hospitality plans to open the Commerce Street location this summer with a lobby bar and saunas, according to permits filed with the state.

Dallas’ SGDesign Inc. is designing the project.

The building that will house the new micro-hotel was previously offered for retail and office tenants.

“They took the whole building,” said Amy Pjetrovic, a principal with Venture Commercial, which had been marketing the ground floor retail space. “It sounds like a pretty cool concept.

“They really are going to be micro-rooms.”

The Commerce Street building is owned by Dallas-based 42 Real Estate, which has other properties in nearby Deep Ellum and the Cedars neighborhood south of downtown. Scott Rorhman, CEO of 42 Real Estate, confirmed the plans for the bijou hotel deal.

The planned micro-hotel is sandwiched between two of the buildings in the new East Quarter development.

In 2018, Dallas developer Todd Interests and investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management bought more than a dozen buildings dating from the 1920s and ’30s on the eastern edge of downtown.

The new owners are converting the properties to office and retail space.

Just a block from the planned micro-hotel, Todd Interests is building a 17-story office, retail and apartment building called 300 Pearl.