That explains why their jewel, the Orange County Convention Center, is undergoing a massive expansion project which will increase the total square footage to 6 million, making it the second largest convention center in the world, next to Chicago’s McCormick Place. But that status could be up in the air, according to Joe Head, hvac supervisor for the convention center.
“We might be fighting for second with the Las Vegas Convention Center, depending on what they are doing now,” he joked.