BCEC to Be Renamed Saturday to Honor Mayor Menino

Boston Convention Center renamed for former Mayor Tom Menino

The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center officially has a new, but very familiar, name. The 2.1 million square-foot building, which is the largest in New England, that dominates Summer Street in South Boston near the Interstate 90 interchange and the Seaport will now be known as the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in honor of the mayor of Boston for 20 years, from 1993 to 2014. Menino died at 71 in October 2014. Attendees of S…

Boston Convention & Exhibition Center renamed for former mayor Tom Menino

The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is now called the Thomas Michael Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

BCEC to be renamed Saturday to honor Mayor Menino

Boston's convention center will be renamed in honor of the city's longest-serving mayor, Thomas Menino, this weekend.

With convention center naming, Menino gets his due  - CommonWealth Beacon

MAYOR TOM MENINO, James Rooney, then the executive director of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, and I rode the escalator of the newly opened facility on an early visit to the convention in 2004. Rooney provided an upbeat report to Menino on its progress, and the mayor basked in the early signs of success.  Not bad, he seemed to be saying as his powerful hands gestured to the impressive scene in front on him. At that moment, the mayor…