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Fly Your Chopper to the W Atlanta Downtown Hotel

Where: 45 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd [map], Atlanta, GA, United States, 30308

There's going to be another W Hotel in Atlanta soon. When the W Atlanta-Downtown Hotel & Residences opens its doors open in 2008, it will feature 237 hotel rooms, 76 luxury residences, 10,000 square feet of meeting space, a BLT Steak restaurant, and the luxurious Bliss Spa.

The new W will offer up the typical W-branded amenities and services such as Wet® the pool, the Sweat Fitness® center and Whatever/Whenever® concierge service -- as well as two perks worth noting, the city's first hotel rooftop heliport and a 16th-floor open air "infinity-edge" pool. Finally, W has stepped it up a bit!

The downtown Atlanta W hotel will be the crown jewel of the $1.95 billion mixed-use development Allen Plaza situated at the confluence of the Downtown Connector, covering nine city blocks and including nearly 230,000 square feet of retail, 1,300 residences and 2.4 million square feet of office space.

World-renowned Pickard Chilton Architects designed the building with floor-to-ceiling glass and outdoor terraces, while BurdiFilek Interior Design out of Toronto is completing the interior spaces.

Atlanta will be getting lots of new hotels in the future. As we previously reported, Kimpton is planning a condotel that will blow the folks of Atlanta away. And the Mandarin Oriental has its sights on the Southern city. With all this future competition and a report that the existing W Hotel Atlanta Perimeter was "uninspiring" with dated, small rooms and a bathtub that "looked like it came out of a Ramada Inn," we are sure this new W Hotel will live up to expectations. Maybe W will just close that Perimeter location for good? No need for it after this one opens, is there?