Denver opens expanded center

Denver’s expanded Colorado Convention Center officially opened on time earlier this month.

The facility now offers 584,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space, 100,000 square feet of meeting space, a 50,000-square-foot ballroom, a 35,000-square-foot ballroom and a 5,000-seat auditorium.

With four-and-a-half acres of glass looking out on the city, light is the center’s most notable new design element.

The accompanying 1,100-room Hyatt Convention Center Hotel currently is under construction across the street; it will open next December.

On the drawing board: a 50-story tower that will house a Four Seasons Hotel on the first 16 floors and Four Seasons Private Residences above.

Report by David Wilkening