Wenatchee Convention Center

The Wenatchee Convention Center in downtown Wenatchee, Washington, and owned by the City of Wenatchee, was created in 1980. In 1997 it was expanded to {{convert|51000|sqft}},{{citation|author=Mike Roarke|date=November 7, 1997| title=Wenatchee's convention center expands |newspaper=Puget Sound Business Journal|via=ProQuest document ID 226893398}} and in 2016 it underwent a $3 million renovation.{{citation|work=Northwest Meetings and Events|title=Wenatchee Convention Center Modernizes Key Spaces |date=Spring–Summer 2016|url=https://meetingsmags.com/wenatchee-convention-center-modernizes-key-spaces}} It is connected by a skyway across Second Street to a nine-story privately owned hotel, both managed by Coast Wenatchee Center Hotel.{{cite book | last=Ostgarden | first=Jo | title=Best Places Northwest, 17th Edition | publisher=Sasquatch Books | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-57061-735-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lilPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT438 | page=438}}{{citation|author=Christine Pratt|date=August 6, 2010 |title=City food fight leaves council divided, perplexed – Proposal could end coast wenatchee center hotel's management of the convention center. |newspaper=The Wenatchee World|via=McClatchy - Tribune Business News}}