Conveniently located in Uptown Charlotte, just 7 miles from Charlotte Douglas International Airport and within walking distance of more than 5,600 center city hotel rooms, the Charlotte Convention Center is the city's premier meeting and convention space. The facility offers a full-service inhouse Food and Beverage department, inhouse catering department, centrally located food court, complimentary Wi-Fi on meeting level of the facility, UPS Store, visitor information center with gift shop, and a preferred in-house audiovisual provider with complete inventory of equipment and professional technicians. The Charlotte Convention Center features 600,000 total square feet of space, including: - 280,000 square feet of exhibit space that can be separated into four halls.
- 154,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, which includes 50 meetings rooms, the 35,000-square-foot Richardson Ballroom (divisible into 4 rooms), and the 40,000-square-foot Crown Ballroom for a total of 55 breakout rooms.
- Pre-function space totaling 117,000 square feet, which includes 46,400 square feet of meeting room pre-function space, an approximately 20,000-square-foot garden, a 17,800-square-foot terrace near the Richardson Ballroom, 15,000 square feet of pre-function space surrounding the Richardson Ballroom, 11,600 square feet of pre-function space surrounding the Crown Ballroom, and an approximately 6,000-square-foot overstreet bridge connecting the NASCAR Hall of Fame complex to the Charlotte Convention Center.
- 43,000 square feet of concourse space that can be used for registration or other components of your program.
- Six VIP show offices overlooking the exhibit halls that totals approximately 5,700 square feet.
- Approximately 4,000 square feet of space in the Delish Food Court, which offers Einstein Bros. Bagels, Buon Cibo, Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits, and Starbucks. An overstreet pedestrian walkway gives visitors easy access to the 700-room Westin Charlotte Hotel and a light rail station stop, which provides connectivity to the Whole Foods Market, 200-plus restaurants and nightlife options. The Charlotte Convention Center has received the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) STAR Facility Accreditation - the industries only outbreak prevention, response and recovery accreditation. The center has also integrated needlepoint Bipolar Ionization (NBPI) air purification technologies into its HVAC systems as another layer of protection to eliminate and neutralize disease-causing pathogens.