Positioned directly on the Intracoastal Waterway in downtown West Palm Beach, where the marina crowds the water's edge with superyachts and the island of Palm Beach sits just across the channel, The Ben Autograph Collection opened in 2020 as the city's first waterfront hotel in decades. The eight-story building, developed by Navarro Lowrey and designed with a facade articulated by warm bronze-toned cladding panels and cantilevered balconies, takes its name from Benjamin Currie, the engineer who drew the original plans for West Palm Beach in the late nineteenth century. That civic lineage informs the hotel's posture — not a resort retreat but a genuinely urban property, its ground floor opening onto Clematis Street with full-height glazing that connects the lobby to the pedestrian life outside. The 208 rooms were designed by Lissoni & Partners with an interior palette that navigates between the nautical and the residential: saddle-leather headboards with deep pleated detailing, exposed board-formed concrete ceilings in the standard rooms, dark wood-grain tile flooring, and abstract gold-toned rugs anchoring the seating arrangements. The rooftop level carries the most visual ambition — a long infinity pool extending toward the marina and the Palm Beach skyline beyond it, its deck lined with teak-toned decking and canvas loungers, while the adjacent open-air restaurant shelters beneath thatched parasols and rope-woven chairs, amber glass votives catching the last of the evening light.

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Located on the waterfront in Downtown West Palm Beach, The Ben offers an authentic local experience to travelers highlighted by a rooftop bar, swimming pool with Cabanas plus event space to meet every meeting planners needs from a gallery to ballroom.