Downtown Phoenix Developments

Phoenix, the nation's 5th-largest city, will deliver a 1,000-room hotel to accompany its innovative, high-tech, expanded convention center. The Phoenix City Council today approved the new Sheraton hotel that will be owned by the city and constructed in downtown Phoenix's Copper Square. The hotel is scheduled to open upon completion of the expanded Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center and other downtown revitalization projects, as early as late 2008.

"In the next five years, downtown Phoenix will transform itself into a 24/7 city, with a new 1,000-room hotel, a Civic Plaza that's triple the size, the Phoenix Bioscience Center and 15,000 ASU students and faculty," said Mayor Phil Gordon.

The hotel will substantially increase room inventory for the downtown convention market, and will provide delegates with convenient walking access to the convention center, located just one block away.

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