ANAHEIM : Convention Hall’s Fire System: 1 and 1
The fire-safety system at a $30-million expansion of the Anaheim Convention Center--a system which failed its first exam last week--passed this week and will go through a final test Friday.
“There’s just a few minor things they have to correct,” said Barbara Wellen, a fire safety specialist for the city.
Winning the fire-safety inspector’s approval is one of the last obstacles to the completion of Exhibit Hall D, which is five months late.
Under construction since May, 1988, and scheduled to be complete in February, the addition built by Taylor Woodrow California Construction Corp. should be done by the end of the month, officials said.
Convention center officials say delays on the 150,000-foot expansion--which will include the hall, a lower-level parking structure of the same size and an adjacent separate parking structure--have cost hundred of thousands of dollars in lost revenue from canceled shows.
Since the mid-1970s the center has received additions, and this one is the third of four planned expansions.
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