New Hilton Baltimore Hotel Opens

After nearly two years of construction the Hilton Baltimore Hotel is now open for business. The $310 Million dollar hotel becomes Baltimore's largest hotel with over 700 rooms & suites. Located on West Pratt Street, the hotel is adjacent to the Baltimore Convention Center and will be used as a headquarters hotel for conventions at the BCC.

Since the convention center expansion a headquarters hotel has been a noted missing part of the City of Baltimore's ability to land more conventions to the area. Now that the new Hilton hotel is open, planners expect to be able to attract more conventions and retain their largest customer, OTACON, an annual anime fan convention that brings in 23,000 people for a three day weekend every year in August.

City planners put up a huge bet on whether the publicly backed hotel would help boost Baltimore's sagging convention business. Based on long range city wide hotel booking numbers that have risen nearly 20%, it appears that the Hilton Baltimore will indeed payoff.

The hotel itself features well appointed rooms with modern decoration and in most cases, great views of Downtown Baltimore including Camden Yards. There are many conference meeting rooms to compliment the convention center and when the day's work is over several restaurants and lounges on site await guests and visitors to relax after a hard day of networking, deal making, and marketing.

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