How big is the Colorado Convention Center?
The Exhibit Floor is the biggest room in the state, covering nearly
13.4
acres,
the size of 10 football fields.
The Entire
Building is
2.2
million square feet,
large enough to hold every resident of the city and county of Denver if each
stood in a 2×2-foot square.
The two Ballrooms cover
85,000 square feet,
the largest ballrooms west of the Mississippi.
Add it up
The construction of the Colorado Convention Center took
16,000 tons of steel,
or 32 million pounds, about the weight of 177,777 average men (180 pounds)
100,000 bolts
25,000 gallons of paint,
enough to fill 454 standard-sized
bathtubs (55 gallons)
200,000 square feet
of glass
16,000 light fixtures
665 miles of wire,
which would reach from Denver to Dallas (663 miles in a straight line)
28 elevators
1,129 doors
46 acres of drywall,
enough to roof the entire Denver Botanic Gardens (23 acres) twice.
Sources: City of Denver, Fentress Bradburn
