Spokane Convention Center

Spokane Convention Center
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Address	334 West Spokane Falls Blvd. Spokane, Washington
Coordinates	47°39′40″N 117°24′47″W / 47.661°N 117.413°W / 47.661; -117.413Coordinates: 47°39′40″N 117°24′47″W / 47.661°N 117.413°W / 47.661; -117.413
Owner	Spokane Public Facilities District
Built	1972–1974
Opened	May 1974, 43 years ago
Renovated	2007
Construction cost	$10.8 million (original) $8 million (1987 expansion) $77 million (2004 expansion) $41 million (2013 expansion)
Former names	Spokane Convention Center and International Agricultural Trade Center (1989–2006) Spokane Convention Center (1974–1989) Washington State Pavilion (Expo 1974)
Banquet/ballroom	2,700 – Grand Ballroom 1,500 – Centennial Ballroom 1,475 – Junior Ballroom
Theatre seating	2,700 (INB Performing Arts Center) 270 – Multimedia Theater
Enclosed space
• Total space	500,000 sq ft (46,500 m2)
• Exhibit hall floor	120,000 sq ft (11,100 m2)
• Breakout/meeting	33,080 sq ft (3,070 m2)
• Ballroom	50,750 sq ft (4,710 m2)
Parking	700 spaces (on-site)
Public transit access	Spokane Transit Authority
Website	spokanecenter.com

Spokane Convention Center is the primary convention center in Spokane, Washington, in the northwest United States, and consists of two interconnected buildings along the south bank of the Spokane River in downtown Spokane. The facility, owned and operated by the Spokane Public Facilities District, is part of a larger campus, historically referred to as Spokane Center, that also contains the adjacent INB Performing Arts Center.

Designed by the Spokane-based architecture firm, Walker, McGough, Foltz & Lyerla, the original part of the convention center was constructed from 1972-1974 as a part of a single auditorium-convention center building that would serve as the Washington State Pavilion for Spokane's Expo '74. The 117,000-square-foot (10,900 m²) pavilion consisted of two components: a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m²) exhibit hall on the east side of the building and a 2,700-seat opera house on the west side. These programmatic elements were strategically located in this fashion to allow for future expansion of the exhibit hall onto vacant land to the east and north of pavilion once it became a convention center.

The exhibit hall component was converted into a convention center after fair ended and the opera house portion of the facility became Spokane Opera House (now known as the INB Performing Arts Center). The architecture firm that originally designed the Washington State Pavilion was retained to design the $2 million conversion of the exhibit hall space into a convention center. Over the course of its history, the Spokane Convention Center has had two major expansions, with a third set to break ground in July 2013.

The $9.8 million Washington State International Agricultural Trade Center addition broke ground in 1987 and was opened on January 17, 1989. The facility was constructed as a seamless addition to the north side of the existing convention center and featured a 270-seat conference theater, 13 meeting rooms on two levels, an additional exhibition/banquet hall, and a rooftop patio above the theater.