Convention Center
The Gaylord Palms Convention Center has 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m2) of dedicated meeting space. More than half of that space is one large bay called the Florida Exhibition Hall, which has 210,300 sq ft (19,540 m2) including prefunction space. It also features a permanent 101- by 40 ft (12 m). performing stage with green rooms and dressing rooms connected to its Osceola Ballroom.
Osceola County, Florida, at one point had aspirations to build its own convention center. One of the available plans was to give $103 million to Gaylord Hotels to expand the Gaylord Palms' convention center to 1.1 million ft². Under the agreement, the convention center would be renamed the Osceola County Convention Center at Gaylord Palms, and profits would be shared by the county and the hotel.
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