Downtown Raleigh's Renaissance
Three major projects totaling more than $300 million are moving forward to make Raleigh a more viable meetings destination:
- New downtown convention center
- 400-room Marriott headquarters hotel
- Reopening of Fayetteville Street to vehicular traffic
They are among $2.5 billion dollars of new projects that will open in the coming years in downtown Raleigh and catalysts for Raleigh's 3 Billion Renaissance.
Convention Center
150,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space - 30,000 sq. ft. of meeting space
- 32,000 sq. ft. ballroom
- Total of 212,000 sq. ft. of rentable space
- Approximately 510,000 sq. ft. of total building including prefunction space
- Official groundbreaking on April 6, 2005
- Projected opening Fall 2008
- Take the New Convention Center Virtual Tour
Raleigh Convention Center ConstructionCams
Raleigh Marriott City Center
Four Diamond quality Marriott - Convention Center Hotel - 400 guest rooms, including 9 suites
- 9,000 sq ft ballroom
- 6,000 sq ft of breakout meeting space
- Indoor pool
- Fitness Facility
- Projected opening Summer 2008
Fayetteville Street Mall
Raleigh 's premier address with the southern portion reaching Marriott Raleigh City Center hotel, Raleigh Convention Center and Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts - $10 million project featuring 2 lanes of traffic, wide sidewalks to accommodate outdoor dining, and parallel parking; the area will be embellished with sidewalks made of stone pavers, benches, bike racks, trees, planters, and public artwork
- Raleigh's Main Street since its creation as one of the 4 streets radiating north, south, east and west from the Capitol in the 1792 William Christmas Plan for the new State Capital City at Raleigh
- The Mall was constructed in the late 1970s and has existed in its original design until this conversion to vehicular traffic
- Opened Summer 2006
Related Links
Convention Center and other Downtown Projects
Convention Center Construction Update
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