The newly expanded Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center has reopened with 800,000 square feet of space, including 350,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space. Work is in progress on the facility’s continued expansion, taking the project to a total of 1.2 million square feet by late 2025. An 800-room upscale headquarters hotel interconnected with the convention center is also planned for the project, for which details are still being finalized. The total cost for the convention center expansion and new hotel is estimated at $1.1 billion. Stacy Ritter, CEO of Visit Lauderdale, said the convention center expansion — which features a new 65,000-square-foot waterfront ballroom, an expanded exhibit hall and other new features —“makes Greater Fort Lauderdale highly competitive in the national convention landscape.” The expansion, she said, “is key to our continuing evolution as an upscale, cosmopolitan and diverse tourism and meetings destination.”