Sheraton Phoenix Downtown

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Sheraton Phoenix Downtown
Sheraton Phoenix Downtown nearing completion
Location	3rd Street at Van Buren Phoenix
Status	Under Construction
Groundbreaking	2006
Opening	October 1, 2008
Use	Hotel
Roof	360 feet (110 meters)
Top floor	31
Floor count	31
Cost	$350 Million (UDS)
Companies
Architect	Architectonica, RSP Architects
Owner	City of Phoenix

Sheraton Phoenix Downtown is a $350 million (USD), high rise convention hotel, located at the northeast corner of Van Buren Street and Third Street in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona, adjacent to the Arizona Center office/retail complex. The hotel is under construction and scheduled to be completed December 2008, about the time Phoenix Convention Center completes it $600 million expansion. Once built, the 31-story hotel will surpass the Hyatt Regency Phoenix as the tallest hotel tower in Phoenix.

In July, 2004, the Phoenix City Council approved the USD $350 million convention center hotel, to be developed and operated by Sheraton Hotels as a Starwood facility. On November 3, 2004, the city of Phoenix announced Arquitectonica and RSP Architects had been selected to build the project. The tower was topped out in October 2007.

The hotel design plans for 1,000 rooms, a 6,500-square foot fitness center, a 2,000-square foot outdoor pool and sundeck, 80,000 square feet of flexible, state-of-the-art meeting space including a 29,000-square foot ballroom and a 15,000-square foot junior ballroom. In addition, there are 16 meeting rooms, two boardrooms, and a terrace for outdoor events. The exterior color palette of browns, oranges and yellows were chosen to represent the desert sky at sunset. The curved roofline mimics the slope of nearby Camelback Mountain.