Business View Magazine | July 2019

145 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 ALBANY CAPITALCENTER Part of the Capital Complex O pened in March 2017, the Albany Capital Center (ACC), operated by leading venue manager SMG, is a modern, premier event and meeting destination in New York’s culturally rich Capital Region. Connected to the Times Union Center arena, the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, and the Egg Performing Arts Center via enclosed walkways, the joined facility is known, collectively, as the Capital Complex, the largest meeting space in upstate New York, with a total of 159,000 square feet of exhibit space. The Capital Center, itself, hosts a diverse array of trade shows, consumer and social events, and meetings for up to 5,000 guests. It boasts 22,500 square feet of ballroom/exhibit space, six meeting rooms with 9,200 square feet of space, and 13,500 square feet of pre-function space. The ACC is conveniently located in downtown Albany and within walking distance to the New York State Capitol, business and warehouse districts, performing arts venues, museums, shops, restaurants, and nightlife. “We bill ourselves as a multi-purpose facility, so we are able to do a lot of different things,” says General Manager, Doug McClaine. “We’ve done concerts, basketball games, volleyball, black tie dinners for 1,200 people, E-game sports with LED screens. Being in the state capital and only a block away from the Capitol building – actually connected via the walkway – state association business is the most common user of the facility. But, we’ve really