The new Wilmington Convention Center complex serves as a showcase of engineering ingenuity, creativity, technical skill, and environmental stewardship while providing the City of Wilmington, North Carolina, with a solution to their economic needs. Over a 10-year period, this previously-abandoned shipping facility, later classified as a Brownfield site, was rehabilitated using state-of-the-art, low-impact development techniques to transform the area located on the riverfront in Historic Downtown into "107,000 square feet of awesome," as stated by North Brunswick Magazine.