Penny Arcade signs a deal to stay in Boston for 3 more years
The Boston Herald reports that the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Penny Arcade Expo organizer Reed Exhibitions signed a three-year deal to keep PAX East in Boston. Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo explains a few details to GamePro.
First, he says, there is no way the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center — the new East Coast venue — will fail to hold all PAX attendees even though the total number is expected to exceed the previous PAX East’s 60,000.
“To put it in perspective, the Hynes Convention Center we held the first PAX East in has 193,000 square feet of exhibit space,” Khoo said. “The BCEC has 516,000 square feet of exhibition space.”
Even if attendance numbers somehow do soar above the Center’s capacity, PAX has no trouble breaking out segments of the show into satellite facilities. The show did this fairly recently with PAX Prime in Seattle by moving certain events to a venue across the street from the Washington State Convention & Trade Center and previously separated out the Tabletop portion of the show when PAX was in Bellevue, WA in 2006.
PAX East is expected to return to Boston next spring — and every spring thereafter for as long as the new deal is in effect. PAX Prime hits Seattle the weekend of September 3.
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Video gaming conference PAX East commits to Hub for three years [The Boston Herald]
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