New downtown hotel will boost convention business

The downtown Columbus skyline will have a new addition with the announcement of a financing agreement for a new 500-room convention headquarters hotel located on North High Street. The new full-service convention hotel is expected to open in 2012 and include 54 suites and 30,650 square feet of meeting space at a total cost of $160 million.

The hotel development was made possible through collaboration among the Franklin County Commissioners, Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority, City of Columbus and Nationwide Realty Investors, Inc.

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