Las Vegas Convention Center
The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3.2 million square feet (297,000 m?) of space with over 2 million square feet (186,000 m?) of the space available as exhibit space.
At the end of 2004 Las Vegas had about 9 million square feet (136,000 m?) of exhibit and meeting space available.
The Las Vegas Convention Center is adjacent to the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and is a stop on the Las Vegas Monorail.
History
The Center opened on April 29, 1959 with a 110,340 square foot (10,250 m?) facility.
The 1998 expansion brought available space to 1.9 million square feet (177,000 m?).
The 2004 expansion, started in 2002, added 1.3 million square feet (121,000 m?) of space in a new building called the South Hall. This expansion is across Desert Inn Road from the other space. Four bridges over Desert Inn Road connect the facilities.
Early in 2005, the Authority announced plans to add additional meeting space, a police substation, additional connecting walkways and an enclosed walkway to the monorail station.
Facts
The CONEXPO-CON/AGG construction trade show in 2005 used the most space, 1.88 million square feet.
Comdex was the most attended trade show with over 200,000 attendees on several ocassions.
CES is currently the most attended trade show with over 150,000 attendees.