Located in Penn Square, the cornerstone of historic downtown Lancaster in Lancaster County, the state-of-the-art Lancaster County Convention Center (LCCC) and Marriott Lancaster at Penn Square offer over 222,000 total square feet of space and the latest technology for conventions, events and trade shows. The new $170 million convention center and adjoining 300-room hotel are currently being built within the façade of the historic Watt & Shand department store site.
The city of Lancaster is centrally located within the Mid-Atlantic corridor, just 90 minutes from both Philadelphia and Baltimore and 45 minutes from Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania.
Unique from traditional northeast meeting locations, the city of Lancaster blends the convenience of being centrally located to the metropolitan areas of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York, with its own sophistication. Both the convention center and hotel are scheduled to be complete in early 2009.