Westward Ho (Phoenix)

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Westward Ho is a skyscraper located at 618 North Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, formerly occupied by a hotel of the same name. When completed in 1927, the 208-foot (63 m) hotel was the tallest building in Arizona, a title it held until 1960. The Westward Ho was one of the city's premier luxury hotels until it closed in 1979. In 1981, the sixteen-story building was converted to housing for senior citizens. Westward Ho was thoroughly remodeled between 2003 and 2004 at a cost of over $8 million USD.

Westward Ho currently supports a large radio transmitter antenna which reaches a height more than twice that of the building itself.

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The Westward Ho appears in the opening of Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho.

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