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The hotel in October 2014. Marriott Marquis Washington, DC is a luxury hotel located on Massachusetts Avenue NW, in NW, Washington, D.C., United States.The hotel is connected to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center across 9th Street NW via an underground concourse and receives significant business from convention attendees.
Events DC is the official convention, sports and entertainment authority for the District of Columbia. Events DC is a quasi-public company based in Washington, D.C. that owns and manages the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, CareFirst Arena, the RFK Stadium Campus, and Nationals Park among other DC venues. It also promotes, sponsors and ...
The center was originally named the Gaylord Potomac Resort & Convention Center; the name was changed in the planning stage. The hotel contains 2,000 guest rooms, 95 event rooms, 537,430 square feet (49,929 m 2) of meeting space, seven restaurants, and a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) spa. It employs 2,000 people.
The Washington Marriott Wardman Park was a hotel on Connecticut Avenue next to the Woodley Park station of the Washington Metro in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The hotel had 1,152 rooms, 195,000 square feet (18,100 m 2) of event space, and 95,000 square feet (8,800 m 2) of exhibit space. It opened in 1918 and closed in 2020.
The Convention Center–Southwest Waterfront Line, designated as Route 74, is a daily bus route that is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority between Walter E. Washington Convention Center (6th Street & Massachusetts Avenue NW) and Buzzard Point (2nd & R Streets SW) via 7th Street NW/SW. The line operates every 30 ...
In 2006, the Council of the District of Columbia approved legislation naming the then-Washington Convention Center in honor of the city's first home rule mayor, the late Walter E. Washington. [4] In 2008, the WCSA Board of Directors agreed to expand the newly built convention center by 75,000 square feet (7,000 m 2). [5]
This plan was expanded upon by Carter T. Barron in 1947, as a way to memorialize the 150th anniversary of Washington, D.C., as the U.S. national capital. As Vice Chairman of the Sesquicentennial Commission, Barron envisioned an amphitheatre where "all persons of every race, color and creed" in Washington could attend musical, ballet, theater and other performing arts productions.
The hotel also offers seasonal al fresco dining facilities. [1] The Library Bar features dark-panelled wood, [5] and has outdoor patio space. Both the bar and restaurant are located near the lobby. [2] The hotel contains an all-day business center, wireless internet [6] and 5,000 square feet (460 m 2) of function space. There is also a small ...