McCormick Place, the nation’s largest convention center, brings in nearly 3 million visitors each year. Many of these visitors attend conferences that extend over several days or weeks. To meet the needs of long-term visitors, Hilton, along with First Hospitality Group, proposed a new extended stay hotel development adjacent to the convention center. The proposed hotel development would be tri-branded (Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn by Hilton, and Home2 Suites by Hilton) and would include various hospitality amenities, a rooftop restaurant, and first-floor retail spaces. Additionally, the proposed development would have direct access to the convention center with an attached third-floor pedestrian walkway.

The new hotel development was designed as a twenty-three-story structure and was constructed from the ground up over a two-year period.  The project commenced with a deep foundation system and continued with a consecutive sequence of concrete pours for the pre-stressed concrete vertical superstructure. With more than a dozen trades on site each day, project management became an essential aspect to the construction progress.