AC Hotel Portland Downtown

The hotel has 13 stories and 204 guest rooms. The lobby has a handpainted mural by Damien Gilley. Behind the front desk is a mural by Jason Prouty depicting a scene from brewer Henry Weinhard's Barrel Room.^[2] The interior also has "floating shelves, air plants and natural wood features".^[3] The lobby's coffee shop has the only Alpha Dominche Steampunk espresso machine in Oregon,^[1] according to Willamette Week, which included the coffee maker in a 2018 list of "fifteen special features of Portland's high-end hotels locals need to know about".^[4]

The hotel has a bar called AC Lounge,^[5] as well as a fitness center, a library,^[6] and meeting rooms.^[7][8] Caleb Diehl of Oregon Business described the lobby's design as "a blend of the natural — granite panels framing the window of 'The Slab' coffee shop,  wall-mounted naturalist sketches — and the modern stainless steel tables, marble walls, a minimalist black-and-white color scheme)." Diehl also noted in 2017, "The business desk offered Macs... The reading selection featured bold modern typefaces and insights on photography, coffee and tech."^[9]

The hotel, among the first AC-branded in the U.S.,^[10] was designed by SERA Architects. KPFF Consulting Engineers and M.A. Mortenson Company were the engineering firm and design-builder, respectively. Construction on the $50 million project took place from September 2015 to February 2017.^{[11][12][13][14]} Previously, the site was occupied by a 30,000 square foot office building, which was demolished.^[15] The hotel was open to guests on February 20, 2017,^[16][17] a few months later than the originally scheduled opening date of December 2016.^[18]