Georgia International Convention Center
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The Georgia International Convention Center or GICC, opened in April 2003, is the second largest convention center in the State
U.S. state
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 of Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

: second only to the Georgia World Congress Center
Georgia World Congress Center
The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 3.9 million ft2 and hosts more than a million visitors each year. At the time opened in 1976 the Georgia World Congress Center was the first state...

. It is located at 2000 Convention Center Concourse, just off Camp Creek Parkway (S.R. 6
Georgia State Route 6
State Route 6 State Route 6 State Route 6 (also known as Camp Creek Parkway and honorarily as Tuskegee Airmen Parkway in Fulton County, Thornton Road in Douglas County, C.H...

) and Roosevelt Highway
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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 (U.S. 29) in College Park
College Park, Georgia
College Park is a city located partly in Fulton County, Georgia and partially in Clayton County, Georgia, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 13,942...

. The Convention Center is serviced by the College Park
College Park (MARTA station)
College Park is an at-grade Rail station on the Red and Gold lines of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority rail system. This is the fourth busiest station in the MARTA system. It opened on June 18, 1988...

 MARTA
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority or MARTA is the principal rapid-transit system in the Atlanta metropolitan area and the ninth-largest in the United States. Formed in 1971 as strictly a bus system, MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a rapid transit system consisting...

 station, Interstate 285
Interstate 285
Interstate 285 is an Interstate Highway loop encircling Atlanta, Georgia, for . I-285 is also known as unsigned State Route 407 and is colloquially referred to as the Perimeter. Suburban sprawl has made it one of the most heavily traveled roadways in the United States, and portions of the highway...

 and Interstate 85
Interstate 85
Interstate 85 is a major interstate highway in the Southeastern United States. Its current southern terminus is at an interchange with Interstate 65 in Montgomery, Alabama; its northern terminus interchanges with Interstate 95 in Petersburg, Virginia, near Richmond...

.

Currently, behind the Convention Center, the new Atlanta Airport
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , known locally as Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport, and Hartsfield–Jackson, is located seven miles south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia, United States...

 people-mover called ATL Skytrain, connects Airport patrons with the new rental car complex, four hotel accommodations, restaurants at the Gateway Center of the Georgia International Convention Center.

It has a number of exhibit halls, meeting rooms and ballrooms that can be rented.

Previous location

Prior to 2003, the Georgia International Convention Center was located behind and connected with the Sheraton Gateway Hotel Atlanta Airport (Riverdale Road). However, because of runway expansion at the airport, they acquired the land which forced the move.

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