Expansion of RBC Convention Centre is already paying off
In May 2016, just a couple of months after the opening of the major expansion to the RBC Convention Centre, the Liberal Party of Canada held its biennial convention there with about 2,600 delegates.
At the same time that Justin Trudeau and his liberal-red colleagues were flooding into downtown Winnipeg, the international business conference Centrallia also was taking place in the convention centre, with about 700 delegates of its own.
Prior to the $180-million expansion and its additional 112,000 square feet of leaseable space, the convention centre staff and colleagues at Tourism Winnipeg couldn’t even pretend to bid on conventions with more than 800 delegates.
Read the entire story in the Winnipeg Free Press.
