• At 580,000 sq. ft., the Center is big enough to house twelve football fields.
• If you laid the foundation’s pilings from end to end, they would extend 57 miles, roughly the distance from San Juan to Arecibo or to Ponce (60 miles).
• The exhibition hall seats 17,554 people, more than the Grand Garden Arena, the mega-events center of Las Vegas MGM Grand.
• The building’s facade contains 24 million lb. of structural steel, enough to build 96 Statues of Liberty.
• Electric wire used in the Center can surround Puerto Rico 4 times (440 miles of electric wire or 385,000 linear feet).
• The Exhibit Hall can accommodate 30 basketball courts.
• The diverse carpets are unique, designed specially for the PRCC with Puerto Rico’s natural beauty in mind.
The all-new, 580,000-sq. ft., Puerto Rico Convention Center was conceived by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a way of broadening the Island’s successful tourism industry with increased group and business travel.
This remarkable facility will enable Puerto Rico to compete in the convention markets of North America, Latin America and the Caribbean,featuring a 152,700 sq. ft. exhibition hall, the largest Ballroom in the Caribbean with 40,000 sq.ft and an additional 36,200 sq. ft. of meeting rooms.
Most importantly, it will create a singular destination for conventions, trade shows, consumer shows and congresses that will place Puerto Rico at the forefront of meeting destinations.
The new Puerto Rico Convention Center is the largest in the Caribbean and the most technologically advanced throughout both the Caribbean and Latin America.
Boasting 580,000 sq. ft./53,882 m2 of total space, the Center can accommodate groups of up to 10,000.
The Puerto Rico Convention Center (PRCC) has been developed to fulfill the needs of the convention and meetings sectors arena, and to establish Puerto Rico as an important player in this growing industry.
Today, this modern and cutting edge Convention Center will be the drawing force for a new era of economic and tourism development in Puerto Rico.
Considered an architectural celebration of Puerto Rico’s many distinctive natural attributes, architects of the PRCC have aimed to construct a facility that provides guests with the distinctively “techno-tropic,” yet natural feel of the Island.
This has been largely achieved by incorporating water and ocean imagery throughout the facility and by infusing the colors and textures of Puerto Rico’s flora and fauna in the interior spaces.
In addition, architects took full advantage of the Island’s solar orientation by designing a grand outdoor pre-function space offering panoramic views, extending from Old San Juan to the Condado area.
The Puerto Rico Convention Center is located in Convention District, site of the former U.S. Naval and Coast Guard base in San Juan’s Isla Grande. It is conveniently close to Old San Juan, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, Condado hotels and tourist attractions.
