GEORGE R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER

The IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 conference will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas Houston is located on the eastside of downtown Houston. The headquarters hotel, Hilton Americas-Houston
is located directly across the street from the convention center.

The center was named for the late Houston entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist George R. Brown. Brown’s Texas Eastern Corp. donated six of the 11 city blocks required to build Houston’s sparkling new red-white and blue convention center.

The sleek 100-foot-high building with a total of 1.2 million square feet of meeting space replaced the obsolete Albert Thomas Convention Center, which was later redeveloped into the Bayou Place entertainment complex at its site in the downtown Theater District. The futuristic-looking new convention center was designed by a consortium of Houston architects and engineers to symbolize the building’s devotion to function, according to chief designer Mario Bolullo of Golemon & Bolullo Architects.

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