 At the hotel's north side was a five-story building containing a 1,000-car garage and exhibition hall.To the south was the hotel's lavishly landscaped garden designed by Ralph Ellis Gunn, a terrace and an immense swimming pool measuring 165 (50m) by described as the world's biggest outdoor pool, which accommodated exhibition waterskiing and featured a 3 story-high diving platform with an open spiral staircase.Construction was completed for about $21,000,000 (equivalent to over $200,000,000 in 2007).