Mayor Pushes State for $200 Mil for Bigger Convention Center

PHOENIX-The city of Phoenix is forming a task force to look into the economic benefits of having a larger convention space in downtown.

An expanded and upgraded Phoenix Civic Plaza is one of the top goals of Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimsza, who has three remaining years in office to get the job done. He does not plan to seek reelection.

Rimsza says that he will form a task force made up of city officials and state legislators to look at the return a larger convention center would generate for the city. He would like to add 1.5 million sf to the 30-year-old plaza and build a second facility adjacent to the original one, he says.