Author: James Zoltak

New Jersey Convention Centers Team Up

The new coalition is working toward the day when members can welcome back full-size crowds. (Courtesy New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center) Six complexes get ‘on the same page’ for reopening Six New Jersey convention centers have joined forces to coordinate protocols and measures to ensure operations resume after the pandemic shutdown in as safe and responsible a manner as possible. The Spectra-managed Atlantic City Convention Center, the state’s largest with over 1 million square feet, spearheaded the effort to form the group, the New Jersey Convention Center Coalition. It also includes the Cape May Convention Center, Meadowlands Convention Center, New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center, Ocean City Music Pier/Civic Center and Wildwoods Convention Center. Ronnie Burt, the Atlantic City center’s vice president of sales and marketing, said the coalition idea arose when the convention center served as a 250-bed field medical center. “We knew that field medical center was… Continue Reading New Jersey Convention Centers Team Up

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Making Sure It’s a Clean Election

Public assembly venues are lining up for election duty, and janitorial service companies are stepping up to keep those arenas, stadiums and convention centers as safe as possible for voters and workers.

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McCormick Place Rooftop Garden Growing Strong

The garden atop McCormick Place, North America’s largest convention center, has gone from feeding event guests to providing healthy food and generating funds for vulnerable members of the Windy City area’s population.

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