Built to significantly increase hospitality and conference space, this major hotel expansion added five floors of subterranean parking, three levels of ballrooms, auditoriums, sloped meeting rooms and a conference center, and 18 stories of hotel rooms. Project scope also included a dramatic lobby renovation and kitchen upgrade.

A Grand Stair is the hotel centerpiece, extending 20 feet in height and wrapping around two 35-foot tall columns. It provides a dramatic access between the hotel’s main lobby, Grand Ballroom, and the Wintergarden of adjacent Bellevue Place. Constructed of 62 tons of steel, the Grand Stair features Amber stone quarried from Spain at the treads and landings. A stainless steel and glass handrail boasts beautiful African Black Mahogany banisters.