The hotel sits along St. Clair Avenue and features rainbow lighting running length wise along its multilevel parking deck at night.

[2] Originally, in the 1990s there was to be a Westin Hotel built in Cleveland in The Flats and was to have 416 rooms; however this project never materialized.

The Westin was built as the Bond Court Hotel in the mid-1970s with the intent of being linked to the neighboring Penton Media Building but partially collapsed when originally under construction in 1974.

In serious decline since the 1990s, The Crowne Plaza hotel was renovated in 2013–2014 and was rechristened a Westin, before opening in May 2014.

The color facing of the tower was changed during this time from dull brown to off-white in keeping with the new "tidy" look of the structure.