If out-of-towners coming to visit want to feel like they’re at home, a new hotel in Lincoln Park might be right up their alley. A new concept headed to the neighborhood aims to make guests feel like they’re living in a Lincoln Park apartment.

That’s according to Ingrid Summerfield, president of the San Francisco-based boutique hotel company Joie de Vivre. The company recently announced that it plans to open a 12-story, 184-room hotel called Hotel Lincoln. It is expected to open in February next year at Lincoln Avenue and Clark Street.

Hotel Lincoln will be the company’s second property outside of California, and more than half of the rooms will have impressive views of Lake Michigan while other rooms will feature views of downtown Chicago.

The historic landmark building that will house Hotel Lincoln, which is undergoing a major renovation, will feature a new lobby bar and lounge and an all-season rooftop bar.

Although RedEye reported that restaurant hotspot Perennial Virant, which is in the same building as the hotel, will be providing breakfast and room service, a man who answered the telephone at the restaurant said that there are no plans for the restaurant to collaborate with the hotel. And Summerfield said that the hotel is still too early in planning stages to announce who will provide room service.

“We’re still in the planning stage, so everything hasn’t been finalized,” she said.

Opening a hotel in Chicago makes sense for Joie de Vivre because “Chicago is one of the premier cities in America,” and because it’s an important place for travelers, Summerfield said.

“We’re quite excited to have Chicago as a partner city,” she said.

The hotel hopefully will make people feel as if they are living at an apartment in Lincoln Park, with great access to the lake, Summerfield said. She said that it should be “warm and comfortable.”

After all, she said, “When you look out the front of the building, you have that incredible view of the lake and the park.”

The building to house Hotel Lincoln also is across the street from the popular Green City Market, which is on Wednesdays and Saturdays during warm weather months.

Talking about the hotel building, Summerfield said, “It has this historic nature, and the hotel will give it a new lease on life and a fun and unique design that fits the area.”

The company likes to try to create a synergy between its hotels and the neighborhoods where they are located. Joie de Vivre has been “looking at the neighborhood and the architecture of a building and coming up with a design that fits the environment and create something unique,” Summerfield said. “We enjoy creating these types of property and working with the communities.”

She said she hopes that people who live a little further away than Lincoln Park will go enjoy comedy at Second City or “a night on the town” and dinner at the Perennial Virant and stay a night at the hotel for what she said will be an “affordable” price — though she said prices haven’t been finalized yet.

Joie de Vivre was created in 1987 by entrepreneur Chip Conley, and it is known for creating innovative hospitality services and products and for designing one-of-a-kind boutique hotels, restaurants and spas.

Andrew Alford is owner of Dirty Lines Design, the interior design firm hired for the Hotel Lincoln project. Alford said in a statement that the hotel would create a fun, welcoming environment that carries Lincoln Park’s charm.

It “will have a very residential feel with an eccentric-meets-collegial preppy style that will be realized through a mix of vintage and contemporary décor and artwork,” Alford said.

Padraic Swanton, communications director of the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce, spoke favorably about Hotel Lincoln’s coming to Lincoln Park.

“As far as we’re concerned, any opportunity to drive tourists to the neighborhood is a major benefit for our businesses,” Swanton said. “There’s a lot of competition for tourist dollars in a city like Chicago, and the more options for them to find our neighborhood, the better. We have a lot of cultural institutions and destinations that tourists seek out, so they might as well stay here if they’re going to visit the neighborhood anyway.”

Swanton added, “We’re looking forward to their opening, and we would love to work with them in the future.”