Best Residential/Hospitality: AC Hotel Downtown Orlando
Although it features just eight floors of guest rooms, conference rooms and boardrooms, the new AC Hotel Orlando could make a claim that it’s the tallest hotel in downtown. Austin Commercial constructed the 117,600-sq-ft structure, which was completed in December 2020, on the upper floors of the SunTrust Plaza. The base building is 25 stories total with the hotel component starting on Level 18. The 17 lower floors house primarily office space that was occupied during construction of the hotel.
Starting in September 2019, work began on the 18th and 19th floors, where the hotel houses its conference rooms and boardrooms. Guest rooms began on floor 20 and total 180 rooms spanning up to the 25th floor.