Cobb Galleria Centre Logs Busy Year Amid Pandemic
The Cobb Galleria Centre convention center in Atlanta has hosted 85 events in a little over a year since it reopened in July 2020 after a short pandemic shutdown.
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Category: Convention Centers
SDCC Reopens for Conventions
The San Diego Convention Center, which for the past 15 months has housed the homeless and sheltered unaccompanied migrant children, reopened for its intended purposes this week.
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Expanded, Renovated and SAFE in Sacramento
Sacramento’s convention center complex has completed a $300 million expansion and renovation.
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Sparks to Tip Off at LA Convention Center
The WNBA’s Sparks began moving into the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday as the team prepares to play 11 games at the facility.
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Tupelo Complex Shows Off Renovations
BancorpSouth Arena and Conference Center is easing back into events and showing off a $15.2 million renovation.
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R.I. Convention Center Taking Patients
The convention center, managed by ASM Global, has become a 600-bed field hospital. (Courtesy venue) Set up as field hospital in spring, it’s now getting COVID-19 overflow The Rhode Island Convention Center is again being used as a field hospital. The ASM Global-managed facility in Providence had been set up over two weeks in late March and early April as a field hospital to handle overflow from local hospitals as the novel coronavirus spread in the U.S. But as was the case at a number of convention centers and other venues, it wasn’t ultimately needed, said Lawrence Lepore, general manager of the convention center and the adjacent arena, the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. The hospital had been set up by the Army Corps of Engineers, which awarded a contract to AECOM to design it. It was about to be decommissioned and the state hired a contractor in early November to convert […]
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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 […]
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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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Austin Convention Center Looks to Reboot
The Austin Convention Center and Palmer Events Center are connecting event organizers with local health authorities to formulate plans for restarting programming.
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Convention Centers: Going By the Book
CROWD PLEASER: The Raleigh Convention Center has played a key role helping draw throngs to an annual bluegrass festival. (Courtesy Raleigh Convention Center) Raleigh complex details its cleaning procedures and processes for all to see The Raleigh Convention & Performing Arts Complex has released a 33-page “Re-Opening Protocols & Procedures Guide,” laying out in detail the measures it has taken to resume operations as safely as possible once it gets the go ahead to welcome events and guests. The guide includes procedures and processes — including cleaning and sanitation measures — to protect staff, event organizers, guests, performers and exhibitors from potential COVID-19 transmission. There are also venue-specific protocols for cases of employees or guests exhibiting symptoms. The guide is the result of consultations with industry experts, an examination of best industry practices. It takes into account local, state and federal guidelines, including guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease […]
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Convention Centers: More to Love
The Cox Business Convention Center in Tulsa is back to hosting events while boasting a $55 million renovation that’s been 10 years in the making.
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America’s Center Gets It Together
America’s Center Convention Complex has returned to hosting events and has a new integrated venue management/marketing and communication software from EventBooking and SimpleView to help staff get the facility back on track amid the coronavirus disruption.
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