LOS ANGELES
Anschutz Entertainment Group expanded its plans to overhaul the Los
Angeles Convention Center, adding a 47,000-square-foot multipurpose facility to
a proposed new West Hall. The addition would help give the center the most
ballroom space among similar facilities citywide, with banquet seating for
4,000 people, according to Ted Tanner, a senior vice president at AEG.
"It will be almost twice the size of our largest ballroom at the JW
Marriott," Tanner said during a meeting of the city's ad hoc committee on
the convention center and football stadium project.
The Convention Center is being expanded as part of a proposal from AEG to
build a new football stadium downtown near the center. The current center's
West Hall would be relocated to Pico Boulevard and expanded to make room for
the stadium. The new Convention Center would offer up to 1.1 million square
feet, up from the current 861,000 square feet, according to John Wickham, an
official with the city's Chief Legislative Analyst's office.
"The multipurpose room would provide more flexible space that could be
converted into eight meeting rooms, a ballroom or exhibition space,"
Wickham said.
