Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center is a construction site responsible to the future needs of society. The BCEC will take up a total of forty-two acres of the sixty-acre site. It will be 1, 540 feet long and 770 feet wide with a total of 516,000 contiguous gross square feet. The exhibition halls will be divisible into either two or three halls in addition to the 41,000 square foot grand ballroom. There will also be 86 meeting rooms with 160,000 square feet of space and a 54 bay loading deck that allows drive-on access to the exhibit floor and 200 parking spaces located right on site.

Taking up over 1.6 million square feet, The BCEC will be the largest and premier convention center in the Northeast. The 41,000 square foot ballroom has picturesque views of the Boston skyline and harbor. There will be an attached headquarters hotel with 1,200 rooms. This hotel will have an additional ballroom and meeting space. The BCEC will give Boston enormous potential to attract larger association and trade show events. The facility will be conveniently located only eight minutes from Logan Airport and minutes form the subway.

The BCEC will fulfill a crucial need in Boston. In recent years Boston has lacked the capability to meet the demand for a meeting and convention facility to accommodate large-scale events. The Hynes Convention Center can hold events that require less than 200,000 square feet of exhibit space, but the BCEC will provide accommodations for those that require more space. Recently many exhibitions have been forced to relocate to cities with large enough exhibition centers even though they express preference for Boston. Between the Hynes Convention Center and the BCEC Massachusetts will retain the leading position in the meeting and convention industry. This will insure the industry to continue stimulating the states economy.

For decades the South Boston Waterfront was a bustling hub of activity for Boston's maritime and industrial industries. With the completion of the new convention center, this section of Boston will thrive again. In addition to the BCEC the next few years will see the waterfront bustle a new, as new offices, hotels, restaurants, retail outlets and parks continue to encompass the landscape. This creates a vibrant twenty-four hour district, while keeping the integrity of the working port. Boston is in the midst of several projects to further connect the South Boston Waterfront and expanding Boston's activity across the waterfront.

Visitors of the BCEC area will be able to walk along the Harbor Walk, extending from South Boston to the North End. Visitors will also have easy access on foot to Fanueil Hall when the Central Artery is demolished with the completion of the Big Dig's Underground highway. Also the subway system will include a transitway reaching the Waterfront and several points known as the Silver Line.

The Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Harbor Association, along with private organizations and neighborhood groups will be releasing a revised master plan for the area. The plan will include significant residential development, several thousand new hotel rooms, and millions of square feet of office space. The revitalization of the Boston Harbor Islands will give visitors, tourists, and residents of Massachusetts the opportunity to enjoy historical structures as well as the beaches located on these islands.

The construction of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center is a very exciting time for the economy of our home city of Boston, Massachusetts. In exhibition, social, political, economical, leisure, occupational issues this project responds to the major demand of society. The construction of the BCEC is responsible to the future needs of society.