[1] The hotel's façade is clad in textured split ribbed concrete block.
The second floor features meeting rooms and an additional restaurant while an atrium rises 8 stories.
The hotel has 693 guest rooms, two restaurants, a grab n' go market, a swimming pool,42,000 square feet (3,900 m2) of meeting space, and a retail shop.
[2] The Hyatt Regency Phoenix was chosen by the NFL as the headquarters hotel for Super Bowl XLII which was played in nearby Glendale in February 2008.
[citation needed] On July 1, 2008, the Hyatt Regency Phoenix was sold for $96 million to Los Angeles–based DiNapoli Capital Partners.