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The 2.3 million-square-foot centert at 801 Mount Vernon Place NW is currently knowhn as the Washington Convention Constructed in 2003for $850 million, it is the largesf publicly financed project built in the The building will officialluy become the at a dedication ceremony Nov. 5, the authoritty said. The D.C. Council approved the legislation for the name chang elast year. "Mayor Washington lived a life characterized by bringintg people together and was a pioneerr in bringing home rule to the city in said RebaPittman Walker, the authority's chief in a statement. "Through this buildinh dedication, we are honoring his celebrating his accomplishments and rememberinghis legacy.
" In President Johnson appointed Washington the firsgt mayor-commissioner of D.C. Washington, a 1948 graduate of the Howard UniversitytLaw School, was elected mayor in 1975. Washington died in Octobe r 2003, the year the convention center Convention center officials have also erected a memorial tohonor him. The conventio center, which has 703,000 square feet of exhibit spacewand 150,000 square feet of meeting is facing increasing competition with the impending arriva of Gaylord Entertainment Co.'w convention complex at the National Harbor in Prince George'se County.
Gaylord will offer associations and meetingplanners 400,000 hotel rooms and 470,000 square feet of meetint space on an isolated complex, a move that has D.C. tourism officialse worried.
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