![]() While the new suite is a smaller and has a scaled-back kitchen area, it does boast a pool table and, like its elder sibling, a tub with a panoramic city view. A few years ago, we wrote about the larger Presidential Suite atop the first tower, which offers similarly stunning views of the city and the Downtown skyline. ![]() The new wing also includes another spacious 1,600-square foot top-floor suite called the Chairman’s Suite. That tally moves it into second place among the Downtown area’s largest hotels, behind the 745-room Hilton Milwaukee City Center. The expansion adds 50 jobs, as well as 119 standard rooms and suites to give the property a total of 500 guest rooms. Rather than build two separate buildings, architects Cuningham Group and Zimmerman Architectural Studios drew a new hotel tower that juts out 90 degrees from the east facade of the original tower, creating one seamless structure. "Before I worked here I had no idea," he says, "but once I started (almost a year ago) I realized just how much demand there was for a second tower." Five years after the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino opened, towering over the Menomonee Valley, a second 19-story wing is now online.Īccording to Potawatomi's Jay Saunders, demand for rooms meant that the idea for expansion was hatched pretty quickly once the first tower opened in August 2014. ![]()
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