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The Santa Clara Convention Center is located in northern
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. It serves as one of the large meeting and convention facilities in
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, with of meeting space. It was built in 1986 and expanded in 2009. The convention center is located in the same complex as the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and the Santa Clara TechMart conference center. It is adjacent to the VTA Great America light rail station and across the street from the Great America theme park.


History

The convention center was completed in 1986 and hosted the first
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the following year. The ballroom space was expanded in 2009. During the
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, the Strategic National Stockpile Division of the
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converted the convention center into a Federal Medical Station to receive up to 250 noncritical patients from local hospitals.


Events

The convention center has hosted the following notable events: *
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(1987) *
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(1999, 2017) * BayCon with the
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Santa Clara (2008–2015) *
Japan Expo USA Japan Expo USA was a three-day anime convention held in August at the San Mateo Event Center in San Mateo, California, United States. The convention is organized by SEFA Entertainment, based in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. It is the ...
(2013) *
Crunchyroll Expo Crunchyroll Expo (CRX) is an annual three-day anime convention held during August/September at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California over Labor Day weekend. The convention is organized by anime licensor Crunchyroll and L ...
(2017) *
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in response to the
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See also

* San Jose Convention Center *
List of convention centers in the United States This is a list of convention centers in the United States by state or insular area. By state Alabama *Bald Rock Lodge ( Cheaha State Park) *Bessemer Civic Center *Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex *Bryant Convention Center (Tuscaloos ...


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