Economic and Community Development in Copper Square
· 600 businesses operating within Copper Square, including over 240 restaurants & retailers.
· More than 29,000 people work in Copper Square.
· 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m2) of office/ retail space available for businesses.
· More than 16,500 people live within a one-mile (1.6 km) radius of the heart of Copper Square.
· The Phoenix Convention Center, completed in 2009, will double the convention center's size to 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2), ranking it within the top 20 convention centers.
· More than 2500 hotel rooms are available to support visitors to Copper Square. An additional 500 rooms are planned with the addition of 3 new boutique hotels.
· Light Rail is on track to be completed by the end of 2008 with plans to see 26,000 boardings per day in the first year of operation. An additional 27 miles (43 km) has been funded.
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