[1] Located at 500 South Salisbury Street, the three-level 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2) building contains a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) exhibit hall, twenty meeting rooms and a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) ballroom.

Extensive acoustics work was performed to not only provide sound isolation between adjacent activities within the center, but also to control noise output to the surrounding community.

[3] The facility is more than double the size of the older convention center that was erected in 1977, renovated in 1997, and torn down in February 2006.

The city is currently accepting design proposals and will select a plan sometime in 2023 with the project expected to be complete in 2028.

[14] On June 4, 2010 the City opened the Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater adjacent to the Convention Center, which seats around about 6,000.