The team will immediately begin working with the city's hotel committee and Hyatt on finalization of the hotel's functional program, site assessment for final site selection and concept design.

Brian Klipp worked on the Denver hotel project for more than five years in conjunction with the previous scenario for a city-subsidized, private financing of the hotel project with Denver developer Bruce Berger. In that capacity, he worked extensively with Marriott and Hyatt and to a lesser extent, Hilton and Westin.

Klipp developed a detailed knowledge of large 1,000-plus room convention hotels including operational consideration, spatial relationships, cost implications of alternative design elements and overall Downtown urban design considerations important for a convention center hotel on any site near the Colorado Convention Center, according to the city's hotel committee. That background will be invaluable in expediting the programming, site selection and concept process for the hotel, it adds.

Klipp also was the local architect on the new Denver Central Library. He also developed the master planning and the program document for the current expansion of the Denver Art Museum. Brian has also chaired or co-chaired the city's design review process for several significant Denver urban projects, including the Pepsi Center and the new Invesco Field Mile High.