InterContinental Miami

The InterContinental Miami is a luxury hotel in Downtown Miami, Florida. Opened in 1983, it is owned by Strategic Hotels & Resorts and operated by IHG Hotels & Resorts as part of its InterContinental portfolio.

History
Designed in 1982 by noted architect Pietro Belluschi. it was opened in 1983 as the Pavilion Hotel, as part of developer Theodore Gould's waterfront Miami Centre project. However it was subject to foreclosure in 1985 which led to InterContinental being selected to manage it. They were granted a long-term management contract the following year when it was renamed the Intercontinental Miami.

In 2009, the hotel began $30 million in renovations to better-complete with other downtown hotels, which were completed in 2012. The renovations included redecorated rooms with more technological features, presidential and executive suites designed by Venus Williams' agency V Starr, the new Richard Sandoval restaurant Toro Toro, and an exterior lighting system consisting of a new entrance with customizable multi-color lamps, and a 19-storey "digital canvas" of LED light bars on the sides of the building that can be used to play animations. The "digital canvas" launched with an animation featuring a silhouette of a dancing woman.