Sunrise Panorama of George R Brown Convention Center in Downtown Houston - Texas
by Silvio Ligutti
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Sunrise Panorama of George R Brown Convention Center in Downtown Houston - Texas
Artist
Silvio Ligutti
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The George R. Brown Convention Center, opened on September 26, 1987, is located on the east side of Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.
The center was named for the prominent Houstonian George R. Brown, an entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist. Brown’s Texas Eastern Corporation donated six of the 11 blocks required to build the convention center. The center is owned by the City of Houston and managed by the Houston First Corporation. The facility was completed with a price tag of $104.9 million, requiring 30 months and more than 1,200 workers. The 100-foot (30 m) high red-white-and-blue building replaced the obsolete Albert Thomas Convention Center, which was later redeveloped into the Bayou Place entertainment complex in the downtown Houston Theater District. It is the first convention center in the world to have a permanent Bitcoin ATM.
The convention center is served by METRORail light rail service at Convention District station.
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December 7th, 2016
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