Puerto Rico Convention Center

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If there’s one area in Puer­to Rico that has real­ly received a facelift it’s the area where the new Pedro Rossel­ló Con­ven­tion Cen­ter dis­trict is being built.

Back in the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry this entire area used to be the San Juan U.S. Naval Sta­tion.  And let’s just say that the type of busi­ness­es that abound­ed in the area were not con­ducive to a pos­i­tive qual­i­ty of life (wow, that was nice).

When the base was closed in the late 70’s the old mil­i­tary build­ings became local gov­ern­ment instal­la­tions.  That only added to the decay. Fur­ther­more, many busi­ness­es in the area no longer had the right cus­tomers and were forced to close.

By the ear­ly 90’s the entire area was cov­ered by dilap­i­dat­ed build­ings and aban­doned struc­tures.  Crime, drugs and pros­ti­tu­tion were the order of the day.

Then Gov­er­nor Pedro Rossel­ló González announced the devel­op­ment of the Gold­en Tri­an­gle Project that involved the demo­li­tion of most of the old build­ings in the area and the con­struc­tion of an ultra mod­ern con­ven­tion cen­ter complex.

The main struc­ture is a 152,000-square-foot exhi­bi­tion hall that’s the largest and most tech­no­log­i­cal­ly advanced facil­i­ty in the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca. The cen­ter was inau­gu­rat­ed in 2005, by Gov­er­nor Aníbal Aceve­do Vilá, and in 2010 it was named after Gov­er­nor Pedro Rossel­ló González by then gov­er­nor Luis Fortuño.

The cen­ter is strate­gi­cal­ly locat­ed next to the Isla Grande Air­port, the Román Bal­do­ri­o­ty De Cas­tro Express­way, Old San Juan and the Con­da­do hotel area.

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