 | This article needs to be updated. (August 2023) |
| Albany Convention Center | |
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 Artist rendition viewed from the current location of Liberty Street | |
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| Address | Hudson Avenue and Broadway |
| Location | Albany, New York |
| Coordinates | 42°38′49.39″N 73°45′8.91″W / 42.6470528°N 73.7524750°W |
| Owner | Albany Convention Center Authority |
| Operator | ASM Global |
| Opened | N/A |
Construction cost | $220 million (projected) |
| Enclosed space | |
| • Total space | 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) (projected) |
| • Exhibit hall floor | 1 |
| • Ballroom | 2 |
| Website | |
| http://www.accany.com/ | |
The Albany Convention Center (ACC) was a proposed convention center to be located in downtown Albany, New York. The complex was initially proposed by Albany Mayor Gerald Jennings in 1994. In 2004, the Albany Convention Center Authority (ACCA) was established by the New York Legislature as a New York State public-benefit corporation to develop plans for the ACC. Supported by Governor George Pataki, the project was awarded a $75 million grant in 2006. The anticipated price tag of the project was approximately $220 million, and a site between Broadway, Hudson Avenue, and the South Mall Arterial was selected. In 2008, 2009, and 2010, the ACCA acquired much of the property that made up the proposed site.
In December 2013, Governor Andrew Cuomo approved plans for a different, smaller convention center to be built at the intersection of Howard and Eagle Streets. That convention center, which became known as the Albany Capital Center, was largely paid for using the state grant that had been set aside for the ACC; it opened on March 1, 2017. As of November 2016, there were no plans to develop the proposed site of the Albany Convention Center. In April 2018, the Albany Times Union reported that the ACCA wished to sell the proposed site of the Albany Convention Center for $1.