Raleigh Convention Center 00602
500 S Salisbury St, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA
The Raleigh Convention Center is a convention and exhibition facility in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina that opened in September 2008. The lead architect was Obrien/Atkins Associates.[1]
Located at 500 South Salisbury Street, the three-level 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2) building contains a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) exhibit hall, twenty meeting rooms and a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) ballroom.[2]
The ballroom on the highest level can seat up to 2,715 persons (banquet-style) or 3,630 persons (theater-style). The exhibit hall on the lowest level can hold up to 790 booths or seat up to 6,800 persons (banquet-style) or 9,600 persons (theater-style). Extensive acoustics work was performed to not only provide sound isolation between adjacent activities within the center, but also to control noise output to the surrounding community.[3]
The facility is more than double the size of the older convention center that was erected in 1977, renovated in 1997, and torn down in February 2006.[4] There had been controversy about the older building as well as the site of the new building.
