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The Grand Concourse of McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois The Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida The New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana The Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. This is a list of convention centers in the United States by state or insular area.
The exhibit hall was also the home of professional wrestling cards from the early 1980s to mid-1990s with monthly visits from the WWE and the occasional WCW event. The hall totals 90,000 square feet (8,400 m 2 ) of exhibit space - 65,000 on the main floor and 25,000 on the balcony, and can be divisible into two halls.
The Greater Columbus Convention Center in 1993, prior to multiple expansions. Architects of the building, Peter Eisenman and Richard Trott, were selected through an international design competition. Dan Graveline, an expert on convention centers, consulted on the project by creating the GCCC functional diagram to which the design was created. [10]
Asbury Park Convention Hall is a 3,600-seat indoor exhibition center located on the boardwalk and on the beach in Asbury Park in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It was built between 1928 and 1930 and is used for sports, concerts and other special events.
Completed in 1993, the 1.7 million square feet (160,000 m 2) convention center was designed by architect Peter Eisenman, who also designed the Wexner Center. [30] With Nightmares Film Festival, Columbus hosts an annual film festival for horror and genre films. It is frequently cited as one of the most influential genre film festivals in the USA.
The Convention Center Annex of green glass and white steel frames, mainly on the south side of Pico, was designed by architect James Ingo Freed. [ 5 ] The area in front of the convention center is known as the Gilbert Lindsay Plaza , named for the late councilman who represented the Downtown area of Los Angeles for several years.
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A convention center (American English; or conference centre in British English) [1] is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees.