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Hotel chain
  
Westin Hotels

Management
  
Westin Hotels

Floor count
  
26

Opening
  
1986

Height
  
324 feet (99 m)

Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh

Address
  
1000 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222

The Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh is a hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh, with a prominent position in the area adjacent to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and the Cultural District. The hotel broke ground on December 6, 1984 and was originally known as the Vista International, construction "topped off" on September 26, 1985 and the hotel opened in 1986. In the 1980s it hosted the annual regional ad agency awards & banquet.

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Notable guests

Several notable figures have chosen the hotel:

  • December 6, 1991: South African leader Nelson Mandela visits the hotel for a major speech.
  • January, 1992: Joan Collins while touring with the Private Lives stage show.
  • March 25, 1992: Then governor and presidential candidate Bill Clinton visits the convention center hotel days before the commonwealth's primary as he fights back the recent Connecticut loss to Jerry Brown.
  • December 2, 2003: President George W. Bush visits for a major speech.
  • July 25, 2005: Vice President Dick Cheney visits for a major speech.

    • Mascot

    In 2016 as part of a partnership with Anthrocon, the hotel was given an anthropomorphic mascot named "Westie", a West Highland White Terrier.

    References

    Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh Wikipedia
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