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Convention Center Expansion Winding Up

SAN DIEGO-Seven years in the making, the $216-million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center -- a project arguably more important to the future of Downtown than the proposed ballpark project -- is nearly finished.

By Randyl J. Drummer | Updated on August 08, 2001

SAN DIEGO-Construction is nearly complete on the $216 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center—a project many believe is more important to Downtown’s future than baseball.

The 864,000-sf expansion will reinforce San Diego’s center as “one of the premier exhibit and meeting venues in the world, as well as help solidify our great city as the ultimate tourist destination,” says Hal Sadler, chairman of Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects, which designed the project in collaboration with Los Angeles-based HNTB Architects.

The city is owner and developer of the project that will about double the amount of meeting and exhibit space at the venue. Turner Construction is the construction manager, with Ron Rudolph serving as project director.

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