By Ellen Richardson Photos bt TMF Photography
There are few places with the history and popularity like Greensboro, NC’s Best Kept Secret! The Dynacon Event Center and multimedia venue, located on East Wendover Avenue, is an elegant facility offering more than 10,000 square feet of meeting or entertainment space for upscale events as well as available offices for growing businesses. Owned and operated by former technology executive, business owner and general contractor William (Bill) Waller, this unique facility has a history unlike any other of its kind. First constructed in 1943 as a hospital for Army enlistees who needed physicals prior to being deployed overseas during the Second World War, this building eventually became a famous nightclub that hosted jazz artists including Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, and John Coltrane. In the 1960s this facility became a sports arena where legendary boxer Rocco Francis Marchegiano, better known as Rocky Marciano, refereed wrestling matches. In the 1980s the future Dynacon Event Center would become an Army/ Navy store before becoming an indoor roller hockey arena in the 1990s, and finally being acquired by Bill Waller in 2002. “it is funny because when I was living in New York and working in high technology, I never thought that I would own a place like this, said Waller. After moving to North Carolina as President of Vectrix Corporation, a high tech company eventually sold, I acquired a general contractors license and became active in residential and commercial construction. This is actually how I acquired the Dynacon, which was a down payment on a house for a local chiropractor.”
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