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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Mayor Edwin M. Lee on Monday announced that the Moscone Center has received LEED Gold certification, the first convention center on the West Coast to attain the green building honor.

“Mayor Lee also introduced preliminary legislation to establish the Moscone Expansion District, increasing hotel room taxes to help pay for the Moscone Convention Center’s expansion, which will add more than 200,000 square feet of underground and aboveground convention and meeting space. The proposed approximately $500 million expansion will create about 3,420 new jobs and generate $700 million in revenue for the first seven years, and projects hotel occupancy will increase to an average of 87.6 percent. “

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