Spokane Tribe sponsors Spokane Convention Center in $2.6 million contract

SPOKANE — For the first time since it opened, the Spokane Convention Center will have a sponsor, and it’s as local is it possibly could be.

Starting on Sept. 1, it will be called the Spokane Convention Center Presented by the Spokane Tribe of Indians.

The Spokane Public Facilities District, which owns and operates the convention center signed a 10-year sponsorship for the center and the exhibit hall, which will be renamed the Spokane Tribe of Indians exhibit hall. The sponsorship will cost the tribe $2.65 million in total over the decade. The agreement, announced Wednesday, has four 5% increases and starts at $250,000 a year.

Public Facility District CEO Stephanie Curran said the numbers were calculated from what the center is worth. The money the tribe pays to PFD will go into keeping