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Operator
  
MCCA

Opened
  
1988

Architecture firm
  
Kallmann McKinnell & Wood

Built
  
1988

Phone
  
+1 617-954-2000

Hynes Convention Center

Website
  
www.massconvention.com/jhcc.html

Address
  
900 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Owner
  
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center

Similar
  
Boston Convention and Exhi, Prudential Tower, The Shops at Prudentia, Copley Place, Boston Common

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The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston was built in 1988 from a design by architects Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood. It replaced the John B. Hynes Memorial Auditorium, also a convention center, built in 1963 during the Massachusetts Turnpike expansion from Route 128 to the Central Artery, which was regarded as "ungainly". The 1988 design "attempted to relate in scale and materials to its Back Bay setting, adopting granite and setbacks... The severe gray interior is reminiscent of an early 20th-century German railroad station". The Center is named after former Boston mayor John Hynes.

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Physical characteristics

The building has 193,000 square feet (17,900 m2) of exhibit space and can accommodate up to four concurrent events. It features 71,600 square feet (6,650 m2) of meeting space with 38 permanent rooms and a 24,500-square-foot (2,280 m2) grand ballroom.

Annual occupants

  • Anime Boston is one of the events which regularly occupies the Hynes with around 27,000 unique attendees.
  • Harvard Model Congress have been using the center for all House committees for its 2011 conference.
  • First Night Boston has used space at the Hynes each New Year's Eve.
  • Harvard Model United Nations has used it for the inauguration ceremonies with thousands of students from all over the world.
  • CollegeFest is a back-to-school college marketing event held yearly at the Hynes with around 15,000 attendees.
  • Berklee College of Music has a yearly jazz festival/competition, drawing in high school jazz bands from both inside and outside of New England.

    • Location

    The convention center makes up a substantial part of the wider Shops at Prudential Center complex.

    Transportation

    The convention center is connected by aerial passageways to a nearby hotel complex and can be reached by public transportation via the Hynes Convention Center station on the MBTA Green Line and, using the passageways, via the Back Bay (MBTA station) station on the Orange Line, commuter rail and Amtrak. Logan Express shuttles run directly to and from Logan International Airport.

    Nearby hotels

  • Colonnade Hotel Boston [1] is connected underground via the Prudential Center T Stop and Prudential Mall.
  • Copley Square Hotel
  • Mandarin Oriental
  • Hilton Back Bay
  • Sheraton Boston is directly connected to the convention center.
  • Marriott Copley Place is connected to the convention center via the Copley Place Mall.
  • Westin Copley Place is connected to the convention center via the Copley Place Mall.

    • References

    Hynes Convention Center Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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