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The hotel was built in 1898–99, when Fort Smith was a frontier town at the edge of Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Following Oklahoma statehood in 1907, the hotel declined in significance and eventually closed. [2] The building now hosts "Miss Laura's Social Club", and serves as Fort Smith's visitors center.
With few hotels near the new convention center, there was a need for a "convention headquarters hotel". In May 1999, Monument Realty proposed constructing a 1,000-room convention headquarters hotel on a 51,000-square-foot (4,700 m 2 ) lot it owned on a roughly triangular parcel bounded by New York Avenue NW, K Street NW, and 10th Street NW. [ 3 ]
Washington County Convention Center: Greenville: Mississippi: 63,400 sq ft (5,890 m 2) 67,600 sq ft (6,280 m 2) Addition Financial Arena/The Venue at UCF: University Park: Florida: 64,300 sq ft (5,970 m 2) 66,800 sq ft (6,210 m 2) Fort Smith Convention Center: Fort Smith: Arkansas: 40,000 sq ft (3,700 m 2) 65,740 sq ft (6,107 m 2)
The center was originally named the Gaylord Potomac Resort & Convention Center; the name was changed in the planning stage. The hotel contains 2,000 guest rooms, 95 event rooms, 537,430 square feet (49,929 m 2) of meeting space, seven restaurants, and a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) spa. It employs 2,000 people.
The Washington Marriott Wardman Park was a hotel on Connecticut Avenue next to the Woodley Park station of the Washington Metro in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The hotel had 1,152 rooms, 195,000 square feet (18,100 m 2) of event space, and 95,000 square feet (8,800 m 2) of exhibit space. It opened in 1918 and closed in 2020.
In 2006, the Council of the District of Columbia approved legislation naming the then-Washington Convention Center in honor of the city's first home rule mayor, the late Walter E. Washington. [4] In 2008, the WCSA Board of Directors agreed to expand the newly built convention center by 75,000 square feet (7,000 m 2). [5]
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