March 2023 marked a high point for the Georgia World Congress Center Authority as it celebrated the topping out of the 453-ft-tall Signia by Hilton Atlanta hotel. The event marked more than reaching the physical peak for the tallest ground-up hotel project in the city in decades, it also marked the culmination of years of planning, patience and persistence by the GWCCA.
Throughout the remainder of 2023, the organization saw the project completed, and in January 2024, GWCCA unveiled the hotel as the latest jewel in its crown, joining the other world-class venues in the group’s portfolio, making it the largest combined convention, sports and entertainment campus in North America. The decade-long journey to construct the $326-million hotel provided plenty of twists and turns for the authority, says Kevin Duvall, chief operating officer at GWCCA.