More on the Maxwell Center
By Steve Herring
Published in News on August 2, 2017 5:50 AM
The $20 million Maxwell Regional Agricultural and Convention Center is being built on North Wayne Memorial Drive adjacent to Wayne Community College.
Ground was broken for the 1.5-acre, all-under-one-roof center last July.
The assembly hall will seat 800 in a banquet setting and more than 1,500 when set up for a speaker.
The banquet hall is expected to be major drawing card because it is going to be very versatile -- it can be one big room, or it can be divided up into multiple smaller rooms.
It will hold 70 booths for a trade show or similar event.
The center will house the Cooperative Extension Service, Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Wayne County Soil and Water and have classrooms and a large lobby.
The land was donated by the city of Goldsboro.
The city is working to secure a hotel for its adjacent lot at the intersection of Wayne Memorial Drive and New Hope Road.
As part of the agreement with the county, the hotel will be located farther back on the lot so as not to block the center from sight to traffic exiting off the nearby U.S. 70 Goldsboro Bypass.