Cobo Hall

Cobo Hall, officially Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center, is a convention center situated in downtown Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is named for Albert E. Cobo, mayor of Detroit from 1950 to 1957. Designed by Gino Rossetti, Cobo Hall opened in 1960 alongside Cobo Arena, a sports and entertainment facility. It underwent a significant expansion in 1989 and presently holds 700,000 square feet (65,030 m²) of exhibition space. Each January, it hosts the North American International Auto Show. However, it is considered somewhat undersized for this purpose, and a variety of proposals are currently being floated for either expanding the hall's convention space (possibly by eliminating either Cobo Arena or Joe Louis Arena) or building an entirely new convention center. Critics of these proposals note that that aside from the Auto Show, Cobo Hall is rarely filled to its capacity, and they argue that expanding or replacing the facility should thus not be a high priority for the city.

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Convention center: In American English a convention center is a large, cavernous public building with enough open space to host public and private business and social events for the surrounding municipal and metropolitan areas. In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as exhibition...

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