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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Silicon Valley's biggest indoor room spent its first decade losing business to San Francisco. The San Jose McEnery Convention Center at 150 West San Carlos Street opened in 1989, a 147-million-dollar, Mitchell/Giurgola-designed complex approved by Mayor Tom McEnery in 1983 and renamed in his honour in 1991. The design put three column-free halls totalling 140,000 square feet above a half-sunken 1,200-car garage, with bow trusses carried on service-spine piers and ramps running trucks directly o...