The Great Bend City Council Monday night discussed the convention center, which it now owns, and the center’s relationship with the adjacent and privately owned Highland Hotel Some history is in order. Farmers Bank and Trust owned both the hotel and convention center. Last August, Ambika Enterprises, a partnership between husband and wife Tejal and Amarish Patel of Concorida, and an uncle Ishwar Patel of Vancouver, Canada, bought the hotel portion.