“Home to the best trade shows in Vegas”
The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority in Winchester, Nevada. Being one of the largest convention centers in the world with 3200000sqft of space, it hosts shows with an estimated 200,000 participants. It is the largest single-level convention center in the world. At the end of 2010 Las Vegas Valley had more than 10000000sqft of exhibit and meeting space. The CONEXPO-CON/AGG construction trade show in 2008 used the most space, 2400000sqft.The LVCC is adjacent to the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino and the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel and is accessible from the Las Vegas Monorail.HistoryCity and county community leaders realized in the 1950s, the need for a convention facility. The initial goal was to increase the occupancy rates of hotels during slow tourist months. A site was chosen one block east of the Las Vegas Strip at the site of the Las Vegas Park Speedway, a failed horse and automobile racing facility from the early 1950s. A 6,300 seat, silver-domed rotunda, with an adjoining 90000sqft exhibit hall opened in April 1959. The silver dome, which hosted the Beatles on August 20, 1964, was the site of the World's Heavyweight Championship fight between Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and Floyd Patterson on November 22, 1965, and home to the UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball team from 1966 - 1982, was demolished in 1990 creating space for expansion. When completed, 1600000sqft, with 1300000sqft for exhibitors, makes it one of the largest single-level facilities in the world.
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