Construction of the downtown Westin Hotel is on pace for a June opening, and the hotel's Italian steakhouse is taking shape. It now has a name, Stella Van Buren, and a menu of steaks and house-made pastas. The 220-room Westin is the higher-end hotel going up at 550 N. Van Buren St., just blocks from the lakefront. It will be connected at its third floor  —  where the restaurant will be  — to the U.S. Bank Center's Galleria level and to the 833 East Michigan office tower.

It's also near the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. apartment tower now under construction and near the future site of The Couture apartment high-rise. "This is really your power corridor," said Chris Anderson of White Lodging, the Merrillville, Ind., hotel property management company that will operate the hotel and restaurant.