CLEVELAND
On Sept. 30, 2015, representatives from Cuyahoga County, the City of Cleveland, Turner Construction Company, Hilton Worldwide, community leaders and other hotel project supporters celebrated the "topping out" of the $272 million Hilton Cleveland Downtown scheduled to open in June 2016.
The 600-room convention hotel will be located on Lakeside Ave. adjacent to the Lake Erie shoreline, FirstEnergy Stadium and connected to the new Cleveland Convention Center and Global Center for Health Innovation.
"The topping out ceremony gets us closer to the completion of Hilton Cleveland Downtown as we look forward to the 2016 Republican National Convention," said Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson. "It positions us to be competitive in seeking conventions and conferences into the future."
The 32-floor, convention-style hotel will offer more than 46,000 square feet of function space, including a 20,778-square-foot Grand Ballroom and 15,729-square-foot Junior Ballroom.
Nine meeting rooms, featuring natural lighting with floor-to-ceiling windows and lake views, accompany the ballrooms on the third and fifth floors. On the concourse level, a subterranean passway will connect visitors to the Cleveland Convention Center. The Convention Center contains 225,000 square feet in meeting space, including 36 private meeting rooms and a 32,000-square-foot ballroom.
The project is a collaboration between the Cuyahoga County Council, Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council and the City of Cleveland. Hilton Hotels & Resorts, owned by Hilton Worldwide, will operate the hotel and provide day-to-day operations support including sales, marketing and customer service.
