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The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is a convention center located in Washington, D.C., USA, owned and operated by the city's convention arm, Events DC. Designed by the Atlanta-based architecture firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, the convention center is located in a superblock bounded by Mount Vernon Square and 7th, 9th and N streets, N.W. It is served by the Mount Vernon Square station on the Yellow and Green lines of the Washington Metro. It was completed in 2003. ==Major events== Six of the nine official inaugural balls for the 2005 second inauguration of George W. Bush were held at the convention center.〔"Actors, Musicians to Entertain Thousands". ''Associated Press''. January 13, 2005; Weeks, Linton. "Dashing and Dancing". ''Washington Post''. January 21, 2005.〕 In 2006, the Council of the District of Columbia approved legislation naming the then-Washington Convention Center in honor of the city's first home rule mayor, the late Walter E. Washington.〔Stewart, Nikita. "Renaming Would Honor 1st Home-Rule Mayor". ''Washington Post''. November 29, 2006.〕 In 2008, the WCSA Board of Directors agreed to expand the newly built convention center by .〔(Samuelson, Ruth. "$10 Million Expansion Planned for Washington Convention Center" ). ''Washington City Paper''. December 8, 2008. Accessed September 2, 2011; ("Walter E. Washington Convention Center Plans $10M Expansion" ). ''Washington Business Journal''. December 5, 2008. Accessed September 2, 2011.〕 Six of the 10 official balls of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama took place there, including the first-ever Neighborhood Ball.〔; 〕 The center was the principal site of the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit hosted by President Barack Obama.〔; ; 〕 On November 10, 2011, ground was broken on the 14-story Washington Marriott Marquis, a $520 million, four-star, 1,175-room "convention center headquarters hotel" with more than of meeting room space.〔Kravitz, Derek. "Convention Center Hotel Begins to See Light of Day". ''Washington Post''. November 11, 2010; O'Connell, Jonathan. "Deal Reached on Convention Center Hotel". ''Washington Post''. July 7, 2010.〕 In 2013, it was announced that the Walter E. Washington Convention Center would be the 5 year host of Otakon, the Japanese and East Asian culture convention that was held since 1999 in the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, starting with Otakon 2017 and going at least until Otakon 2021 which was considered to be a "great win" for Washington D.C.'s convention business with an estimated $25 million annual revenue for D.C. and over 30,000 visitors expected during the time Otakon is in D.C.〔http://washington.org/press/otakon-selects-washington-dc-future-site-five-consecutive-conventions Otakon Selects Washington, DC as Future Site of Five Consecutive Conventions Leading American Exposition of Asian Pop Culture Enthusiasts to Meet in Nation’s Capital, 2017-2021. Destination D.C. August 14, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.〕 Since 2014 the National Book Festival has been held at the center. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter E. Washington Convention Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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