Our Story

Overview

With impressive event space, professional services and a prime location in one of the nation’s most talked about cities, the Greenville Convention Center is the Southeast’s leading event destination offering everything you need to plan, host, connect and enjoy in a more meaningful way.
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Our Mission and Vision

To consistently execute memorable events in a manner that respects the aspirations of our clients, our staff and our community as the region’s event venue of choice.

280,000 square feet of exhibit and event space

Room to accommodate to groups from 25-25,000 in size

Professional event management
team

60,000 square feet of meeting and conference space

Location just minutes from GSP International Airport and vibrant downtown

Award-winning culinary
staff

30,000 square-foot ballroom

Minutes from historic downtown

The right place at the right time.

1915
First Southern Textile Exposition
The First Southern Textile Exposition takes place at the old Piedmont and Northern Railroad Warehouse at the 300 block of West Washington Street in downtown Greenville.
1917
Textile Hall
The original Textile Hall opens in downtown Greenville.
1964
New Textile Hall
The ”new” Textile Hall opens at current location off Pleasantburg Drive on October 12, 1964.
1966
First Expansion
Textile Hall completes its first expansion. Additional exhibit space is added in 1969, and again in 1977. The building now includes 368,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space and ranks as one of the largest exposition facilities in the country.
1993
Conference Center
The James H. Woodside Conference Center is dedicated. A former President of Textile Hall Corporation, Mr. Woodside was instrumental in leading the growth of the facility in the 1960s and ’70s. At the same time, the facility changed its name to the Palmetto International Exhibition and Convention Center, or Palmetto Expo Center.
2001
The City of Greenville Purchases the Palmetto Expo Center
The City of Greenville purchases the Palmetto Expo Center from Textile Hall Corp. for $6.75 milion and contracts with SMG to manage the facility.
2006
Carolina First Center
Carolina First Center completes a $22 milion renovation that improves the facility’s exhibit and meeting spaces and boosts connectivity with public spaces.
2011
TD Bank
TD Convention Center makes its debut as the conversion of the Carolina First Bank brand to TD Bank continues throughout the Carolinas. Carolina First had a multi- year, naming rights sponsorship of the convention center, which TD Bank assumed with the acquisition of the bank.
2018
Greenville Convention Center
A new brand takes shape as TD Convention Center becomes Greenville Convention Center, reflecting the pride, ownership and roots connected to the ever-growing city of Greenville and the community that surrounds it.
2023
Oakview Group
Oakview Group is awarded the management contract for Greenville Convention Center. Oakview Group, comprised of OVG360 and OVG Hospitality will operate the Convention Center and the Food & Beverage department for the City of Greenville. Oakview Group is an innovator in the meeting and event industry with over 2,500 properties across the Americas and the world.
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. They record the advancement, they stimulate the energy, enterprise and intellect of the people, and quicken human genius.

–A. B. Carter to the first Southern Textile Exposition, November, 1915

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General Directions

(15 minutes)

Travel I-85 South Exit 51, I-385 North, toward downtown Greenville Exit 40-B, North Pleasantburg Drive (SC-291 South) Left on Tower Drive

(Approx. 2.5 hours)

Travel I-85 North Exit 46, Augusta Road/ Pleasantburg Drive (SC-291 North) Merge onto South Pleasantburg Drive (SC-291 North) Right on Tower Drive

(Approx. 2 hours)

Travel I-85 South Exit 51, I-385 North, toward downtown Greenville Exit 40-B, North Pleasantburg Drive (SC-291 South) Left on Tower Drive

(Approx. 1.5 hours) Travel I-26 West, toward Greenville/Spartanburg Exit 51, I-385 North, toward Greenville Exit 40-B, North Pleasantburg Drive (SC-291 South) Left on Tower Drive
(Approx. 1.5 hours) Travel I-26 East toward Hendersonville Exit #54, US 25 toward Greenville Follow US 276 East (Poinsett Hwy.) Turn left onto Hwy. 291 (this becomes Pleasantburg Drive) Left on Tower Drive