Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel

Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel (HCDH)
Former names Convention Center Hotel
General information
Type Hotel
Location 100 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114 United States
Construction started 2014
Completed 2016
Height
Roof 126.2 m (414 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 32
Design and construction
Architect Cooper Carry
Other information
Number of rooms 600

The Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel is a skyscraper on the corner of Ontario Street and Lakeside Avenue along The Mall (Cleveland) in the downtown neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It is scheduled to open in 2016, will have 600 rooms and will stand 32 stories.[1] It is one of four Hilton properties in downtown Cleveland, the other three being Hilton Garden Inn (Cleveland), the DoubleTree Hotel Cleveland, and Hampton Inn (Cleveland).

The building has been constructed under a partnership between the city of Cleveland, Ohio and the county of Cuyahoga for the purposes of attracting larger conventions to the city of Cleveland. The agreement was entered into under the first chief executive of Cuyahoga County Ed FitzGerald's administration and the three term mayor of Cleveland Frank G. Jackson.[2]

The hotel will be the tallest and largest in the city. The current largest hotel is the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel which has 500 rooms.[3] This is the first major hotel constructed in the city since the building of the Marriott at Key Center was erected in 1991 at a height of 320 feet with 385 rooms.[4] The new Hilton will be managed by Teri Agosta.[5]

Impetus for hotel

Following the construction completion of the new Global Center for Health Innovation and spurred by a tax over run that was raised by the county to construct that facility, the first chief executive of Cuyahoga County, Ed FitzGerald spearheaded the notion that the county needed to mount a hotel project to meet demand for bigger conventions that would overlook Cleveland simply because it no longer had a large enough hotel to accommodate over 500 guests at a time in one location.

This was due to the fact that back in the 1990s, the Stouffer's company (who owned the hotel at the time) renovated the 1000 room Hotel Cleveland at Public Square (connected to the iconic Terminal Tower) down to just 500 rooms. Not many Clevelanders knew this, but tourist groups and convention planners certainly did. This had become something of a liability to the tourism of Cuyahoga County and Cleveland was no longer be considered a convention town.[6] It has been widely acknowledged that the Hilton Hotel project was instrumental in landing the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016.

Financing

The Hotel cost $272 Million dollars and is an example of the strength of public/private partnerships in city construction projects. The city of Cleveland passed legislation that led to the financing structure for the hotel in December 2013.[7] Cuyahoga County followed suit by passing approval for the project in April 2014.[8] There are many pieces to the financing of the mammoth county/city of Cleveland undetaking and many stakeholders involved, these include

Design

The lead architect on the project is the Atlanta firm of Cooper Carry. The project will be LEED certified and has a extensive use of glass to create three slender modern towers jutting up from a four story concrete pedestal base. It will have a main and junior ballroom. The hotel will be respectful to the Daniel Burnham Cleveland Group Plan that was designed in 1903.[11] The central tower will rise 414 feet above a four story plaza and offer stunning views of downtown Cleveland.[12] The skyscraper is being erected by the New York City firm Turner Construction.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "First look: new downtown Hilton offers stunning views of downtown, Lake Erie (photos)". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  2. ↑ "Hilton Downtown Cleveland convention hotel is on track for completion in time for Republican National Convention". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  3. ↑ Greenberg, Peter S. (29 April 1990). "Hotel Disasters Have Put Key Issue Under Fire". Los Angeles Times (latimes.com). Retrieved 2014-08-29.
  4. ↑ "Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  5. ↑ "CrainsCleveland.com : Subscription Center". Crainscleveland.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  6. ↑ "11 actions Ed FitzGerald, Cuyahoga County's first executive, will be remembered for". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  7. ↑ "Cleveland City Council passes Convention Center Hotel financing plan, after all". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ "Bond-financing deal coming together for 600-room Hilton convention hotel in downtown Cleveland". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  10. ↑ "Hilton emerges as likely operator of Cleveland's convention hotel, in deal with Cuyahoga County". Cleveland.com. 2013-10-11. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  11. ↑ "Hilton Cleveland Downtown". Cooper Carry. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  12. ↑ "Hilton Cleveland Downtown- Convention Center Hotel - Cuyahoga County of Ohio". Cuyahogacounty.us. Retrieved 2015-08-15.
  13. ↑ "Hilton Cleveland Downtown | Turner Construction Company". Turnerconstruction.com. Retrieved 2015-08-15.

See also

Coordinates: 41°30′10″N 81°41′45″W / 41.50278°N 81.69583°W / 41.50278; -81.69583

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