Full-service / Detroit
Detroit Plaza Hotel
Closed – archive entry · 1977
The Renaissance Center's hotel from 1977: the world's tallest hotel when it opened, with about 1,400 rooms; it runs today as the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center.
Quick facts
- Rooms
- 1,400
- Opened
- 1977
03 / The story of this place
What was here?
The Detroit Plaza opened in 1977 in the central tower of John Portman's Renaissance Center, the Ford-led “city within a city” built to revive downtown. Run by Western International Hotels (later Westin), it was then the tallest hotel in the world and the chain's flagship, with the revolving Summit restaurant at the top. Its roughly 1,400 rooms nearly doubled downtown's hotel count, and about 475,000 room nights were booked between 1977 and 1981. It was later renamed The Westin Hotel Renaissance Center Detroit and is now the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, still the tallest all-hotel skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.
- Opened 1977 in the Renaissance Center
- World's tallest hotel when it opened
- Revolving Summit restaurant on top
- Former names
- Detroit Plaza Hotel (from 1977) · The Westin Hotel Renaissance Center Detroit (later)
- Architect
- John Portman
- What’s there now?
- The Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, in the tower that Bedrock's 2024 RenCen plan keeps as a hotel.
Hotels nearby
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