- Originally designed to be the tallest hotel in the world for the 1968 Olympic Games with 80 floors. The project was later resized because of cost complications.
- The hotel definitive project includes 31 floors of 3930 sq. meters, with a final height of 116.3 meters of reinforced concrete structure and one circular element and antenna at the top who increase the height to 191.5 meters, the project couldn't be finalized before the olympics opening and was abandoned, but not cancelled.
- The structure was completed at 1972 and the opened building was called Hotel de México, but the main facades was still unfinished. Some areas started their services (The Polyforum, Convention Center, Retail areas, Parking zones, Rotating Restaurant & Discoteque, Panoramic elevators, antenna) but it never was occupied as hotel, slowly the works on facades finally was complished at the 1980's.
- Cancelled when the owner and promotor Manuel Suarez died in 1988.
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