Convention Center Update

San Francisco voters approved the continuation of a hotel tax increase to help fund a 300,000-square-foot addition to the Moscone Convention Center. The $191 million expansion, which is expected to be completed by February 2003, will bring total available space to 900,000 square feet. In Orlando, a land deal was signed in December allowing the Orange County Convention Center to continue an expansion plan that will double its size to 2.1 million square feet by 2003. A site has been chosen for