Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, Convention center in downtown Dallas, Texas.

The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is a large events building in downtown Dallas with exhibition halls, ballrooms, and meeting spaces throughout. An attached hotel connects to the facility via an overhead walkway for easy movement between the two.

The building opened in 1957 as Dallas Memorial Auditorium and underwent several major expansions over the following decades. Each renovation added new spaces and capabilities to meet growing demands for events.

The Beatles played their only Dallas concert in the auditorium on September 18, 1964, after a bomb threat briefly delayed the show. Led Zeppelin opened their final American tour here on April 1, 1977, and Queen filmed the video for "Fat Bottomed Girls" at the center in October 1978. The 1984 Republican National Convention took place here, where Ronald Reagan accepted his party's nomination for a second term.

The Convention Center station on the Red and Blue light rail lines sits beneath the west wing, and Amtrak and Trinity Railway Express trains stop at Union Station to the northeast. The complex has a parking garage and surface lots, and 75 truck berths line its docks. The 9,816-seat auditorium is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The roof holds one of the world's largest heliport and vertiport facilities, and 75 truck berths line the loading docks below. The 2002 addition created the largest column-free expansion space in the world at the time, roofed by a steel space frame hung from twin parabolic arches 400 ft across and 50 ft tall.