The hotel sits at a cross-section between the city's busiest neighborhoods: Downtown, the Short North, and the Arena District.

The main restaurant, called FYR, has two stories, featuring live-fire cooking and local products.

[4] The first Hilton building, completed in 2012, has a brick-and-glass facade to integrate with the surrounding neighborhood and connects to the convention center through a skywalk.

[8] In 2010, ground was broken for the publicly financed, 532-room Hilton Columbus Downtown to help meet the growing demand for events at the convention center.

[11] The artwork features Ohio-based artists, including Queen Brooks, Ann Hamilton, Aminah Robinson, George Bellows, Emerson Burkhart, Milton Caniff, Alice Schille and James Thurber.

[14] The survey recommended the expansion of the Hyatt Regency or the Hilton Columbus Downtown to meet the need of a 1,000-room hotel for convention-center area lodging, estimating $22.5 million a year in direct spending.

[1] In preparation for the opening, the hotel commissioned local fashion designers to create new uniforms for its staff.