Project Description
Completed in 2008, the new Raleigh Convention Center, at just over 500,000 sf, is the premiere civic hospitality building in Raleigh and Wake County. With its vast Exhibit Hall, sixteen meeting rooms, and a Grand Ballroom seating 2,400 people, the new facility is estimated to host more than 375,000 visitors per year. Events in the new Convention Center also use the Meeting Rooms and Ballroom of the new 400-room Marriott City Center Hotel located across from the it.
The Convention Center is arranged on three levels with the lowest being the 150,000 square foot Exhibit Hall. Above this, at the Salisbury Street level are 30,000 square feet of Meeting Rooms. The third and uppermost level is for the 32,000 square foot Grand Ballroom. The building occupies a full city block at the street level and rises to a total height of approximately 100 feet. Below the street level, the Exhibit Hall, loading docks and services expand below two adjacent city streets (Cabarrus and Salisbury).
