The city of Douglasville, Ga. hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking for its new downtown conference center located across Church Street from city hall and the existing conference center. The multi-million-dollar construction will include the 37,000-square-foot conference center and a multi-level parking deck. Funding will come from the city's hotel-motel tax.
It also will add to a substantial supply of existing meeting space in the metro Atlanta area, including the massive Georgia World Congress Center, the nation's fourth-largest convention center. However, the city's current convention center, built in 2001, can only handle one group at a time due to its limited function space of approximately 10,000 square feet.
