| Puerto Rico Convention Center | |
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| Address | 100 Bulevar Saint John, Isla Grande, 00907 |
| Location | Isla Grande (Santurce), San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Coordinates | 18°27′10″N 66°05′33″W / 18.452778°N 66.0925°W |
| Owner | Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority |
| Built | 2000 |
| Opened | 2005 |
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| • Exhibit hall floor | 157,000 sq ft (14,600 m2) |
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The Dr. Pedro Rosselló González Puerto Rico Convention Center (PRCC) (or Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico Dr. Pedro Rosselló González in Spanish),[1] or simply Puerto Rico Convention Center, is a convention center located in Isla Grande (recently named the Convention Center District), in San Juan, Puerto Rico owned by the Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority, a government agency of Puerto Rico, and managed by ASM Global [1]. With a total space of 600,000-square-foot (55,742 m2)[2] and designed by tvsdesign, it is the largest convention center in the Caribbean and one of the most technologically advanced in the Americas.[2]
The Convention Center includes a 152,700-square-foot (14,190 m2) Exhibition Hall that can seat up to 16,965 people and a 39,500-square-foot (3,670 m2) ballroom that can accommodate up to 4,158 people. All in all, approximately 30,000 people can be accommodated within the center simultaneously and can handle conventions of organizations as large as 10,000 participants.[3] The current PRCC general manager is Jorge Pérez.
The center is operated by the Puerto Rico Convention Center District Authority, which also operates the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, also known as the "Choliseo", and the Government Reception Center, known as the Antiguo Casino de Puerto Rico, in Old San Juan, as well as the 113-acre district on which the Convention Center and the attached Sheraton hotel are located. Its current executive director is Omar Marrero.
The convention center is named after former Governor Pedro Rosselló, who proposed and initiated the design, finance and construction of the structure.[4]
After the hit from Hurricane Maria during the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, events at the Puerto Rico Convention Center were cancelled from mid-September through the end of the year while the facility was used as a warehouse and collection center by the Puerto Rican Government to provide food, water and basic necessities to those affected by the deadliest and costliest hurricane in Puerto Rican history. The Convention Center re-opened in early 2018 and has been hosting a wide range of events since. Numerous improvements, such as Distrito T-Mobile, have been made around the convention center area as well, which offers hotels, restaurants, casinos and other amenities.
- ^ "Ley Núm. 53 de 2010 -Para designar con el nombre del "Dr. Pedro Rosselló González" el nuevo Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico". www.lexjuris.com.
- ^ "ICCA Latin America E-Newsletter. Año II, Nº 9. Diciembre 2005" (in Spanish). International Congress and Convention Association. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
- ^ "PR Convention | Event Planners". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2016-01-15.
- ^ "Puerto Rico's 12 Governors Have Lacked Transcendent Goals". Caribbean Business. December 19, 2019.